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diff --git a/perl/perl-YAML-Tiny/README b/perl/perl-YAML-Tiny/README index e157697d35..33e3913120 100644 --- a/perl/perl-YAML-Tiny/README +++ b/perl/perl-YAML-Tiny/README @@ -1,20 +1,12 @@ -perl-YAML-Tiny (read/write YAML files with a little code as possible) +perl-YAML-Tiny (Read/Write YAML files with a little code as possible) -The YAML specification is huge. Really, really huge. It contains all the -functionality of XML, except with flexibility and choice, which makes -it easier to read, but with a formal specification that is more complex -than XML. +The YAML specification is huge. Really, really huge. It contains all +the functionality of XML, except with flexibility and choice, which +makes it easier to read, but with a formal specification that is more +complex than XML. The original pure-Perl implementation YAML costs just over 4 megabytes -of memory to load. Just like with Windows .ini files (3 meg to load) -and CSS (3.5 meg to load) the situation is just asking for a YAML::Tiny -module, an incomplete but correct and usable subset of the functionality, -in as little code as possible. - -Like the other ::Tiny modules, YAML::Tiny has no non-core dependencies, -does not require a compiler to install, is back-compatible to Perl v5.8.1, -and can be inlined into other modules if needed. - -In exchange for this adding this extreme flexibility, it provides support -for only a limited subset of YAML. But the subset supported contains -most of the features for the more common uses of YAML. +of memory to load. Just like with Windows .ini files (3 meg to load) +and CSS (3.5 meg to load) the situation is just asking for a +YAML::Tiny module, an incomplete but correct and usable subset of the +functionality, in as little code as possible. |