Re: Gauging level of interest (or opposition) to a non-XML POM file

All good ideas, and (as I get time) I will investigate each of them. I will look more closely at Modello first and try to get a standalone YAML plugin working there (now that I'm aware of it I could use it for my own stuff outside of Maven so I have some incentive there); once that is done I suspe

Gauging level of interest (or opposition) to a non-XML POM file

I was going to create a new MNG issue but thought I'd start here first: managing large XML documents is no fun and long POM definitions with many dependencies are subject to this. I saw a thread from 2007 that Eric Redmond linked to regarding a YAML -> XML program ( http://markmail.org/message/5ei