[Distutils] comparison of configuration languages

[Nathaniel Smith]

On Fri, May 13, 2016 at 10:15 AM, Chris Barker <chris.barker at noaa.gov> wrote:
> On Tue, May 10, 2016 at 1:54 AM, Paul Moore <p.f.moore at 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

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