Re: New egg: libyaml

Hi,

On Sun, 28 Dec 2025 21:18:58 +0000 li lu via Chicken-users <[email protected]> wrote:

> I'd like to add a new egg `libyaml` to online packages,
> the release-info URI is:
> - https://codeberg.org/rikuri/libyaml.ss/releases/download/latest/libyaml.ss.release-info
>
> The egg is to parse yaml.
> About the existing egg `yaml`,
> there are issues about distinguish list, mapping, NULL, etc.
> So I specifically defined the yaml object in scheme:
> - https://codeberg.org/rikuri/libyaml.ss/src/branch/main/docs/usage.md#yaml-and-scheme
>
> and libyaml is based on it.

Would it be possible to have the issues you mention addressed in the
existing yaml egg?

It's a bit odd to have two eggs to parse YAML, both based on the same C
library.  We have a similar situation with JSON eggs, which confuses new
users (as in "which JSON egg should I use?").

Please don't take this comment as a criticism, but as a feedback: I find
the interface and the coding style of the libyaml egg very unidiomatic.

I might have not been able to fully grasp its interface, but the coding
style is definitely very different from what Schemers normally use
(granted, there are small variations when it comes to style, but
generally people tend to loosely folow [0]).  I only bring this up
because it might hinder contributions and/or understanding of the code.

[0] https://mumble.net/~campbell/scheme/style.txt

All the best.
Mario
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