Confusion about devel/py-yaml options

Michael Gmelin freebsd at grem.de
Wed Nov 6 22:16:57 UTC 2013


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

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Michael Gmelin


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