On Tue, May 10, 2016 at 1:54 AM, Paul Moore <p.f.moore@gmail.com> wrote:

I would love to use YAML. I really would. But for pip, we need a
robust, easy to vendor Python implementation

conda has been using yaml forever (with pyyaml) , and whatever problem is has (and there are many), I don't think I've ever seen a single issue cause by yaml or pyyaml. Might be worth asking the conda devs.

I think we're freaking out way too much about what *could* go wrong.

Oh, and why not "JSON with comments and trailing commas" - it would be well defined and easy to implement.

-CHB

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