Nov. 13, 2013
5:21 p.m.
On Mon, Jun 3, 2013 at 5:56 PM, Philipp A. <flying-sheep@web.de> wrote:
it is PyYAML based, which is not an option for now as I see it.
can you please elaborate on why this is the case? did Kirill Simonov say “no”?
We don't need full YAML spec implementation for package metadata format in distutils (and for other configs too). Therefore.. Full YAML implementation by PyYAML may be good in general, but for this simple case it is huge, unsafe, slow, C-based, which means the parsing logic is not translatable (i.e. with PythonJS) and can not be optimized with future platform-dependent GPU and CPU cache level 2 tweakers of PyPy JIT. -- anatoly t.