On Sat, Sep 5, 2009 at 12:35 PM, David E. Wheeler<[email protected]> wrote:
> On Sep 5, 2009, at 4:42 AM, David Golden wrote:
>> 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?
If Parse::CPAN::Meta is the target 'canonical' parser (by virtue of
being in core), then it's important to produce YAML that it can read.
Here is the result of an analysis I did a while ago on how different
parser interpret META.yml files -- these are the "problem" ones, where
parsers either failed to parse or didn't agree. Mouse over the blocks
to see info text on what the columns are:
http://echo.dagolden.com/~xdg/meta-yaml-testing/
So, it's yak shaving, to some extent, yes, but with "correctness" as a goal.
David
