Re: YAML Tiny for M::B?

On Sep 5, 2009, at 4:42 AM, David Golden wrote:

> Currently, M::B looks for YAML or falls back on M::B::YAML (which is
> an extraction from YAML.pm).  Should these switch to YAML::Tiny?
> (E.g. I would pull in recent YAML::Tiny guts into M::B::YAML).
>
> I suspect that would be more robust than YAML, since META.yml isn't
> YAML and Parse::CPAN::Meta is the read guts of YAML:Tiny anyway.

If it works, what difference does it make? Is that not just shaving  
yaks?

> The other option I'm considering is to create a new, CPAN::Meta
> distribution and rely on that to abstract away all implementation
> details of CPAN Meta files so as the implementation eventually changes
> (e.g. YAML to JSON), M::B can stay the same.

+1

Best,

David