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

[Yitzchak Scott-T. <sth...@ef...>]

On Mon, Mar 20, 2006 at 11:09:39PM -0500, 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?
> 
> Module::MetaYAML?

The point of not just requiring the "real" YAML is to keep a low-level
module-builder (Module::Build) from requiring other distributions.
This doesn't apply to CPAN, and separating out a Module::MetaYAML
would defeat this purpose for MB.