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Noah Thornton
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This change migrates plugin config format away from using JSON to use TOML. - Addresses the plugin portion of discussion #1336 ## Type of Change - [ ] Bug fix - [X] New feature - [ ] Breaking change - [ ] Documentation update ## Motivation and Context Context within https://github.com/apple/container/discussions/1336 > We're looking to improve the user experience and overall functionality of setting defaults for container to better enable future use cases. > > Today container uses macOS's [UserDefaults](https://developer.apple.com/documentation/foundation/userdefaults) to configure settings needed at runtime. As mentioned in https://github.com/apple/container/issues/608, UserDefaults may be idiomatic for macOS, but they apply globally to all sessions and do not handle representing complex, hierarchical data well. Additionally, we currently have two ways of setting these defaults, either directly with macOS's defaults command or through container system property. > > https://github.com/apple/container/issues/608 proposes moving to use environment variables in place of UserDefaults. However, we do not believe this is sufficient. Environment variables are not in a consistent location, are not sourced from data, and also do not handle representing complex, hierarchical data well. As part of this migration to TOML for user settings we want to also move plugin settings to use TOML so that we can have a singular file format for `container` configurations. ## Testing - [X] Tested locally - [X] Added/updated tests - [ ] Added/updated docs