Use YAML output for variantlib plugins get-configs

[mgorny]

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[konstin]

Can we do this with json or toml too instead of introducing a third format?

[mgorny]

Sure. My thinking was that it's "user-readable output that happens to be valid YAML" but I'm fine with a true machine-readable format. Perhaps we should modify other plugin commands to use the same format too.

[mgorny]

TOML output isn't particularly pleasing:

[[amd]]
name = "rocm_version"
multi_value = false
values = [
    "7.10",
    "7.9",
    "7.8",
    "7.7",
    "7.6",
    "7.5",
    "7.4",
    "7.3",
    "7.2",
    "7.1",
    "7.0",
    "6.4",
    "6.3",
]

[[amd]]
name = "gfx_arch"
multi_value = true
values = [
    "gfx900",
    "gfx906",
    "gfx908",
    "gfx90a",
    "gfx942",
    "gfx1030",
    "gfx1100",
    "gfx1101",
    "gfx1102",
    "gfx1200",
    "gfx1201",
]
[[x86_64]]
name = "level"
multi_value = false
values = [
    "v4",
    "v3",
    "v2",
    "v1",
]

[[x86_64]]
name = "avx_vnni"
multi_value = false
values = [
    "on",
]

[[x86_64]]
name = "cppc"
multi_value = false
values = [
    "on",
]

...

JSON:

{
  "amd": [
    {
      "name": "rocm_version",
      "values": [
        "7.10",
        "7.9",
        "7.8",
        "7.7",
        "7.6",
        "7.5",
        "7.4",
        "7.3",
        "7.2",
        "7.1",
        "7.0",
        "6.4",
        "6.3"
      ],
      "multi_value": false
    },
    {
      "name": "gfx_arch",
      "values": [
        "gfx900",
        "gfx906",
        "gfx908",
        "gfx90a",
        "gfx942",
        "gfx1030",
        "gfx1100",
        "gfx1101",
        "gfx1102",
        "gfx1200",
        "gfx1201"
      ],
      "multi_value": true
    }
  ],
  "x86_64": [
    {
      "name": "level",
      "values": [
        "v4",
        "v3",
        "v2",
        "v1"
      ],
      "multi_value": false
    },
    {
      "name": "avx_vnni",
      "values": [
        "on"
      ],
      "multi_value": false
    },
    {
      "name": "cppc",
      "values": [
        "on"
      ],
      "multi_value": false
    },
    {
      "name": "ibrs_enhanced",
      "values": [
        "on"
      ],
      "multi_value": false
    },
...

Which poison do you choose?

[konstin]

idk, TOML looks well diff-able.

[DEKHTIARJonathan]

I honestly don't mind. All 3 are fine with me.

@mgorny approved you can merged when you made your decision.

[mgorny]

I really don't know which one to do! Technically, JSON is less code and I haven't figured out how to fix weird spacing in TOML (i.e. empty lines between AoT elements but not between AoTs).

[konstin]

Yeah merge at your disgression.

[DEKHTIARJonathan]

If JSON is less code then do JSON ;)
Let's make our life easy