Ricardo SIGNES wrote:
>> I remain the loyal opposition. Not as fiercely as with TAP, since META.json
>> is intended more for machines than TAP is and so the benefits do not so
>> clearly outweigh the complexity of parsing YAML.
>
> Right now, there is more or less an unspoken mandate that the YAML in META.yml
> must be parseable by YAML::Tiny, meaning it has *no* feature benefits over
> JSON. It's just a little easier for humans to read. Seriously, though, just
> a
> little, itty-bitty bit. q.v.,
>
> http://cpansearch.perl.org/src/RJBS/Dist-Zilla-1.091370/META.json
>
> There is no documented, proven YAML implementation in Perl. I think that
> YAML::XS seems to work pretty well, but requires XS. The port of PyYAML still
> hasn't landed -- which is what you said we'd have any day now when you were
> arguing for YAML in TAP -- in Oslo in early 2008.
>
> The YAML parser and emitter would need to be in core to support CPAN build and
> install tools.
>
> Why are you still pushing, even a little, for anyone to *keep* making META.yml
> in the future? Are there arguments that I'm not seeing or appreciating?
Accept victory gracefully.
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