Import libyaml into base

Alexander Kabaev kabaev at gmail.com
Tue Mar 5 00:56:17 UTC 2013


On Mon, 4 Mar 2013 21:55:20 +0000
"Simon L. B. Nielsen" <simon at qxnitro.org> wrote:

> On 2 Mar 2013 16:52, "Baptiste Daroussin" <bapt at freebsd.org> wrote:
> > I want to import libyaml into base as libbsdyml so that no ports
> > will use
> it
> > like we do for expat.
> >
> > I need it for the pkg bootstrap, so it it can parse pkg.conf.
> >
> > I know that some of the bhyve people will also be glad to use it.
> >
> > libyaml is MIT licensed, it is stable: no abi/api revolution in it
> > for a
> while.
> >
> > Does anyone have an objection?
> 
> I don't but please add a stub manual page telling people not to use it
> outside base.
> 
> Simon

We dealt with this in the past by renaming the library that goes into
the base to be something else than its upstream variant, witness
libbsdxml. Should this be done to libyaml-in-base as well?
-- 
Alexander Kabaev
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