Support a more standard input format
How hard would it be that SIESTA adopted an input file in a more standard format than fdf
? Perhaps yaml
or something like it.
Do you think it would be a good feature?
After a conversation on standardizing I/O of DFT codes (ase/ase#1056), I thought that keeping fdf
as the input format is probably just a matter of legacy, since nowadays there are well established formats that have good parsers for multiple languages. Using them would make life easier for interfacing with codes and for new users to adopt SIESTA. I think I remember something about @garalb discussing on a more structured output (xml
or yaml
, can't recall), but I don't know if you have considered this also for input.
Edited by Pol Febrer