Re: Python wheel modules

> On Mon, Jan 25, 2016 at 6:58 PM, Britton Kerin <[email protected]>
> wrote:
>>
>> On Mon, Jan 25, 2016 at 2:50 PM, Geoff Adams <[email protected]>
>> wrote:
>> > Hello Mario,
>> >
>> > I think this would be a valuable addition.
>> >
>> > The developer of PyYAML is Kirill Simonov, who seems to have gone quiet
>>
>> Does this mean libyaml is dead?  I'm looking at adopting it for use as
>> the file format for a long-established software package, but I'll have
>> trouble making the case if it's effectively dead.
>>
>> I submitted a small nit with the synopsis on the web page the other
>> day but no response.  I'd like to believe it's alive because it seems
>> substantially more readable that JSON.

On Mon, Jan 25, 2016 at 3:24 PM, Geoff Adams <[email protected]> wrote:
> Hi Britton,
>
> You might want to ask this of the whole list, since I'm just some guy and

Yeah I meant to sorry.

> not an expert in YAML's development (I only wrote a simple wrapper for
> libyaml for Matlab).  But I think YAML is alive and well, even if the
> libyaml implementation has stagnated.  Another way to think of it is, the
> libyaml implementation has been stable for a long time, since it's basically
> captured the YAML 1.1 spec perfectly.  Other implementations are definitely
> under active use and development. I'm not a Ruby programmer, but I believe
> YAML parsing is included in Ruby's standard library. In 2013, there was also
> some discussion on python-ideas of including a YAML module in the Python
> standard library, which met essentially universal approval -- but Kirill
> Simonov was the only candidate for implementing it, and he didn't seem to
> have any interest in doing it.  Not sure if there's been any movement on
> that front, but I hope so; I'd love to see YAML in the Python standard
> library.
>
> Do you need a C implementation?  If you're writing in Python or another
> interpreted language, I bet a native implementation is perfectly good for

I need the C library, the other software is C and the purpose is to
switch to a file format that the scripting languages can easily read
and write while maintaining human readability.

It's a shame if it's abandoned, it seems like a really carefully done library.

Britton

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