May 13, 2016
5:47 p.m.
On Fri, May 13, 2016 at 10:15 AM, Chris Barker <chris.barker@noaa.gov> wrote:
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.
"vendor" here means "munge the library so that it becomes a pure-python subpackage of pip named pip._vendor.whatever". This is a specific technical challenge that conda doesn't attempt... -n -- Nathaniel J. Smith -- https://vorpus.org