[LUCY-133] Eliminate JSON::XS dependency

• Type: Task
• Status: Resolved
• Priority: Major
• Resolution: Fixed
• Fix Version/s: 0.3.0 (incubating)
• Component/s: Core
• Assignee: Marvin Humphrey
• Reporter: Marvin Humphrey
• Created: 12/Mar/11 18:37
• Updated: 12/Aug/11 03:31
• Resolved: 12/Aug/11 03:31

Description

Lucy currently depends on the CPAN module JSON::XS for encoding and decoding
of JSON. JSON::XS has two drawbacks: it is Perl licensed, and it is a Perl
module which other Lucy host bindings cannot use.

We need to swap out JSON::XS with either a hand-rolled replacement or another
library. However, we do not have to resolve this issue prior to the
0.1.0-incubating release, thanks to LEGAL-86.