Support for yaml configuration file

[f-baerenbold]

Comments are not standard in json files and need to be removed for some applications (mainly automation). All the comments are anyways available in the manual.

[tadhg-moore]

I also noticed this recently and was wondering why Simstrat uses a json file? As the programming language I use (R) does not have any "clean" ways for reading/writing json files. I know changing the configuration file would probably be a big change, but a yaml or namelist file are used for other lake models and are human and machine readable.

This is more of a general comment, and not a request for you to change the configuration file.

[f-baerenbold]

Good question. We probably could use a yaml or nml in the future.. it was not a problem for us as we usually use python where json is supported.

[f-baerenbold]

We might add support for yaml in the future if there is a demand for this and if we have capacity to do so. We will keep the json configuration file though, the yaml would come as a second possibility.
@tadhg-moore : you are welcome to contribute in this direction if you like and if it is of use for you