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Date:      Thu, 07 Nov 2013 19:33:57 +1100
From:      Kubilay Kocak <koobs.freebsd@gmail.com>
To:        Michael Gmelin <freebsd@grem.de>, jpaetzel@FreeBSD.org
Cc:        freebsd-ports@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: Confusion about devel/py-yaml options
Message-ID:  <527B5075.8060000@FreeBSD.org>
In-Reply-To: <20131106231655.47d2575e@bsd64.grem.de>
References:  <20131106231655.47d2575e@bsd64.grem.de>

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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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