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Date: Thu, 7 Nov 2013 22:50:09 +0100
From: Michael Gmelin <freebsd@grem.de>
To: koobs@FreeBSD.org
Subject: Re: Confusion about devel/py-yaml options
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On Thu, 07 Nov 2013 19:33:57 +1100
Kubilay Kocak <koobs.freebsd@gmail.com> wrote:

> 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?

http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/query-pr.cgi?pr=183763



-- 
Michael Gmelin