Greg Smith wrote:
> That's a step backwards. By providing JSON format, we've also satisfied
> people who want YAML. Ripping out JSON would mean we *only* support
> YAML. There are far many more JSON parsers than YAML parsers, which is
> why I thought the current code committed was good enough.
XML parsers are common enough IMHO the other computer readable formats
can't be that important from a computer-readability perspective, leaving
their main benefit as being human friendly.
I like YAML output; but I think the most compelling arguments against the
patch are that if so many people want different formats it may be a good
use case for external modules. And far more than yaml output, I'd like
to see a flexible module system with an equivalent of "cpan install yaml"
or "gem install yaml".
I suppose one could argue that instead of YAML we design a different
human-oriented format for loosely structured data; but that seems
even harder.
