Re: Kirill, nobody buys 0.0.1 - we need 1.0.0

On Tue, Apr 01, 2008 at 10:07:18PM +0200, Joachim Wuttke <j.wuttke-97/[email protected]> wrote:
> Dear community,
> 
>     I recently discovered YAML, and I immediately liked it. Integration
> with Ruby is fantastic. I seriously consider using YAML as a standard

Integration with Java is fantastic, with JvYaml package.

> in my scientific work (operation of a spectrometer at a major German
> research facility), which also means I will impose YAML to a large

JvYaml is working flawlessly for me in Java (deserialization into my
own Java beans (and plain Collections classes, etc) all works.

> user community. Before doing so, however, I would like to have some
> assurance that YAML will remain alive for the years to come.

Since we have code to the various implementations, and the
implementations all seem to be very stable, I will certainly be using it
for years to come, even with no updates from others.

I can't comment on implementations other than Java JvYaml.

The (1.1) specification is solid http://www.yaml.org/spec/1.1/

>     (ad 1) This means: Your 0.0.1 is worth a 1.0.0 (as others have noted
> earlier). Please understand: freezing libyaml at 0.0.1 is disastrous not
> only for your contribution, but for YAML at large. Whoever considers YAML
> for use with a little less perseverance than me will be deterred by the
> fact that a central building block is frozen in what appears to be an early
> alpha stage. Please, overcome your overmodesty, rework a little bit the
> documentation, add a few comment lines, and release the present library with
> a decent version number.

I concur with this. To all accounts it is well deserving of a 1.0.0
release.

Regards
Zenaan

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