[Distutils] comparison of configuration languages

[Paul Moore]

On 13 May 2016 at 18:15, Chris Barker <chris.barker at 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