Re: [Module::Build] Making 0.28 a reality

[Ken W. <ke...@ma...>]

On Mar 20, 2006, at 10:09 PM, David Golden wrote:

> John Peacock wrote:
>> I'm not Ken (nor do I play him on TV), but I'd actually suggest  
>> moving the code to a new module Module::Build::YAML, both for  
>> clarity (to separate the code for easier maintenance) as well as  
>> easier replacement (M::B can try to use YAML and only if it isn't  
>> found switch to using M::B::YAML instead).  It may be that at some  
>> time in the future it would be useful to be able to /read/ YAML  
>> data (which requires the full YAML distro) instead of just / 
>> writing/ YAML (which the compatibility layer can handle nicely).
>
> Any chance this could be generalized further to handle all the YAML  
> that CPAN.pm needs and free us from the tyranny of YAML prerequisites?
>

Possible, but I think we should get the first version of it with just  
the bare-bones writing capabilities.  CPAN.pm also needs reading, and  
might therefore need the full capabilities of YAML.pm if someone puts  
whatever obscure YAML syntax into their YETI.mammal file.

  -Ken