Bug#484381: ITP: yaml -- YAML 1.1 parser and emitter written in C

[Anders Kaseorg <andersk@MIT.EDU>]

On Wed, 2008-06-04 at 13:34 -0500, Gunnar Wolf wrote:
> Anders Kaseorg dijo [Tue, Jun 03, 2008 at 06:56:56PM -0400]:
> > LibYAML is a YAML 1.1 parser and emitter written in C.  It's in an
> > early stage of development.
> 
> Is it stable enough to be pushed in Debian? 

I believe so.

It is certainly stable in the sense of "not being changed very often",
since the latest release is from a year ago.  There were a handful of
commits to its svn trunk around January updating the API, which have not
made it into a release.

I am using libyaml via python-yaml in a web service I help to develop.
It works well for us, and is much faster than the pure Python
implementation.  Its use is optional so there is no risk of breaking
existing scripts (to get the libyaml-based implementation, you must
explicitly specify, e.g., yaml.CLoader instead of yaml.Loader).