Posted by cweagans on September 26, 2012 at 11:30pm
One of the nice things about our current .info file format is that any PHP constant can be added to the file and our parser function will substitute the correct value. I have created a patch to convert all .info files to YAML, but the additional effort required to make arbitrary PHP constants work seems like it's not worth it.
Right now, the patch supports substituting the VERSION constant but only that one because core uses it.
Feedback on this issue (and the rest of the patch) would be much appreciated.