On 13 May 2016 at 18:15, Chris Barker <chris.barker@noaa.gov> wrote:
I think we're freaking out way too much about what *could* go wrong.
It's more that:pip would have to vendor pyyaml, and it's not small. I have no idea whether it's easy to vendor, either (does it have separate code paths for Python 2 and 3? I don't know, I've never looked). Also, we'd have to forego the C implementation - I have no idea how much of a performance hit that would give (of course, performance is hardly a key issue here) or how likely it is that bugs exist in the Python version that aren't normally noticed because people use the C implementation (which is definitely just speculation, conceded). But I think the decision is made, so it's not worth debating any more, honestly. Paul