| Subject: | YAML.pm should be relatively safe now. |
I noticed a blog entry about doing the metadata in YAML (which would
certainly let you be more flexible) but showing concern about how dodgy
it is.
Because it is a Module::Build and Bundle::CPAN dependency now, a lot of
work got done to make it less crazy. It doesn't have dependencies or use
Spiffy any more, and I've found it much much saner in the newest versions.
So it's probably not a risk to use it any more.
But then if I keep this up, you'll go from three or fours deps to
slurping in half of CPAN. :)
But everything I've mentioned up to this point has pretty much perfect
testing, stability and portability properties (except YAML, but I'm
cautiously optimistic about it now, and almost everyone is going to have
it anyway soon).