Misaligned JSON metadata files about filetree HOT 1 OPEN

I've got mixed emotions about changing file formats in "midstream". I tend to agree that the format can be improved, but when a release is made with a change in format, all projects end up with massive format only changes intermixed with semantic changes ... and even worse if multiple developers are contributing to the same project and one of them has not updated to the new format, you not only end up with massive changes, but then you have to deal with massive commit conflicts the majority of which are cosmetic ...

tonel has exactly the same problem ...

My plans for Rowan involves including a format type in one of the properties files that will make it possible for Rowan (at least) to adapt to a variety of tonel (and filetree) "canonical" file formats on a project by project basis and minimize the format churn introduced by by the different filetree and tonel formats that exist in the wild ...

from filetree.