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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