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Re: Syck, fork, hosting

On 2/26/08, Ingy dot Net <ingy@xxxxxxxx> wrote: > On 25/02/08 20:37 +0300, Alexey Zakhlestin wrote: > > I am thinking about forking Syck library, as Why obviously doesn't > > have any time to support it. > > > > Will it be possible to host it at yaml.org? Seems like the best place, > > as all yaml-interested persons come here anyway. > > > I believe Audrey Tang of Perl6 fame and the maintainer of YAML::Syck for Perl > is well versed in libsyck. Maybe coordinate with her. That would be useful, yes :) > It is also worth pointing out that perhaps it is time to let Syck die. It was > a good library for many years but libyaml is clearly the future of YAML > libraries. > > What are your use cases for Syck, Alexey? libyaml is clearly the future, but it is still at 0.0.1 release (for over a year) and distro-makers do not believe in such numbersâ I will be glad to switch at the moment, when libsyck has clear release-process (todo, roadmap with dates, etc.) My main current use-case is a php extension based on syck, which is stuck because of bugs in syck-0.55 (those bugs are fixed in subversion, but there were no formal releases for several years). To put it straight: I need to have the new release of syck, which could be adopted by os-distributors and need a way to release bugfixes in future, if needed. -- Alexey Zakhlestin http://blog.milkfarmsoft.com/ ------------------------------------------------------------------------- This SF.net email is sponsored by: Microsoft Defy all challenges. Microsoft(R) Visual Studio 2008. http://clk.atdmt.com/MRT/go/vse0120000070mrt/direct/01/ _______________________________________________ Yaml-core mailing list Yaml-core@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/yaml-core

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Re: Syck, fork, hosting

On 2/26/08, Ingy dot Net <ingy@xxxxxxxx> wrote: > On 25/02/08 20:37 +0300, Alexey Zakhlestin wrote: > > I am thinking about forking Syck library, as Why obviously doesn't > > have any time to support it. > > > > Will it be possible to host it at yaml.org? Seems like the best place, > > as all yaml-interested persons come here anyway. > > > I believe Audrey Tang of Perl6 fame and the maintainer of YAML::Syck for Perl > is well versed in libsyck. Maybe coordinate with her. That would be useful, yes :) > It is also worth pointing out that perhaps it is time to let Syck die. It was > a good library for many years but libyaml is clearly the future of YAML > libraries. > > What are your use cases for Syck, Alexey? libyaml is clearly the future, but it is still at 0.0.1 release (for over a year) and distro-makers do not believe in such numbersâ I will be glad to switch at the moment, when libsyck has clear release-process (todo, roadmap with dates, etc.) My main current use-case is a php extension based on syck, which is stuck because of bugs in syck-0.55 (those bugs are fixed in subversion, but there were no formal releases for several years). To put it straight: I need to have the new release of syck, which could be adopted by os-distributors and need a way to release bugfixes in future, if needed. -- Alexey Zakhlestin http://blog.milkfarmsoft.com/ ------------------------------------------------------------------------- This SF.net email is sponsored by: Microsoft Defy all challenges. Microsoft(R) Visual Studio 2008. http://clk.atdmt.com/MRT/go/vse0120000070mrt/direct/01/ _______________________________________________ Yaml-core mailing list Yaml-core@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/yaml-core