Re: [Module::Build] Re: [Yaml-core] yaml_dump on version objects

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

On Feb 17, 2006, at 3:47 AM, Yitzchak Scott-Thoennes wrote:

> On Thu, Feb 16, 2006 at 12:46:34PM -0500, John Peacock wrote:
>> Is there some overriding reason you are avoiding upgrading the YAML
>> prereq to 0.50 (which in itself isn't even the current rev)?
>
> The newer YAMLs require 5.6.1 (plus a lot of other dependency-bloat).
>

Yeah, M::B targets perls back as far as 5.005_03.  The functionality we 
require from YAML is fairly trivial, just serializing strings & 
numbers.  If YAML itself is too heavyweight for our simple task, maybe 
we need to consider just reimplementing the parts of it we need.  Which 
we could then release as YAML::SmallSubset or something if desirable.

I dunno, none of the options sound fun.

  -Ken