YAML Support for Model Specification

[reedacartwright]

Dawg 2.0 currently uses a custom parameter file format.

YAML is a popular and flexible markup language and being able to specify models using YAML would leverage a lot of existing tools.

[zmertens]

I was thinking about this and was wondering if it would be useful to add a JSON format option too? I think Boost property tree has a built in parser.

[reedacartwright]

Adding JSON support is not needed at this time since users rarely code JSON directly.

[zmertens]

Is this still something worth looking into? I have the work saved on this branch

[reedacartwright]

Not at this time. Focus on the Python bindings.

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