On Thursday, May 23, 2002, at 01:35 AM, Edward Avis wrote: >> And as long as no one intends that module authors actually _write_ it >> (by text editor) then I think it's just fine. > > By that argument what is wrong with Storable?
People won't have to *write* the files, but they'll certainly want to *read* them. I wouldn't like to read XML more than I have to, and I certainly wouldn't want to read a Storable structure. > I guess that's a good reason. OTOH, requiring a fairly common module > like XML::Parser is less bad than requiring some exotic module like the > YAML stuff. Um, I think we have different ideas of exoticism. I don't find either of those modules particularly exotic. Right now Module::Build doesn't rely on *any* modules outside of the 5.6.1 core. I think we're going to have to give up that property if we want to do a decent job with metadata, though. -Ken
