Re: [ANN] PyYAML-3.07: YAML parser and emitter for Python
Kirill Simonov <[email protected]>
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| Message-ID | <[email protected]> |
[email protected] wrote: > On Mon, 29 Dec 2008 02:30:36 +0200 Kirill Simonov <[email protected]> wrote: >> * The test suite is now included in the source distribution. >> To run the tests, type 'python setup.py test'. >> > For the Debian/Ubuntu packages I maintain, I build pyyaml against libyaml. > With the test suit enabled, I find I get a number of test failures if I > build pyyaml 3.07 with libyaml 0.1.1. With the new libyaml (0.1.2), all > the tests pass. > > Is it intended that there be a strict dependency on the newer libyaml or is > this just a function of bugs fixed is the newer release? The latter. The libyaml API wasn't changed, but you may experience some obscure bugs in libyaml-0.1.1. Note that unfortunately 0.1.1 and 0.1.2 releases are not binary compatible so all the dependent packages will have to be rebuilt after upgrade to 0.1.2. Thanks, Kirill ------------------------------------------------------------------------------