Confusion about devel/py-yaml options

Kubilay Kocak koobs.freebsd at gmail.com
Thu Nov 7 08:34:08 UTC 2013


On 7/11/2013 9:16 AM, Michael Gmelin wrote:
> IMHO the sole purpose of this port is providing YAML support to python,
> yet it defines
> 
> OPTIONS_DEFINE= YAML
> 
> which is not enabled by default and shown to the user as
> 
> [ ] YAML    YAML format or parser support
> 
> As far as I can tell this option enables the libyaml plugin in PyYAML.
> LibYAML is written in C and as a result PyYAML is supposed to run
> paster/nicer etc. Unfortunately the current option name doesn't make
> this clear and probably should be overridden to say something like "Use
> libYAML plugin for faster YAML parsing".
> 
> Cheers,
> Michael
> 

Sounds very reasonable Michael, clarity for our users is important.

Can you submit a PR with the details?

--
Koobs


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