From: Clark C . E. <cc...@cl...> - 2002-05-24 22:52:46
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I was musing on google a bit and found the following quote from a file archive proposal [1] posted to the perforce mailing list by Barrie Slaymaker: The resulting files would be XML and perhaps also as YAML (http://yaml.org/). The motivation for optionally supporting YAML is that it is a less cluttered file format that administrators may find easier to read and alter. It may not be enough easier to warrant the extra effort involved, however, especially in the first implementation. This makes me think that we need a YAML vs XML page on our website; and ideally describe the transformation from XML into YAML. Further, there isn't a reason why libyaml can't have a --with-libxml or --with-expat to include XML parsing via the YAML information model. In other words, it'd encounter XML and dynamically convert the file into the proper YAML events. In this way we could provide a nice migration path for people making configuration files. They can use both XML and YAML using one API... ours! Thoughts? Best, Clark [1] http://maillist.perforce.com/pipermail/revml/2002-February/000181.html |
From: Brian I. <in...@tt...> - 2003-05-09 22:09:51
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Hi guys, I read http://www.artima.com/intv/plain.html last week. I kept wanting to interject "what about YAML?". When we were at the Ruby Conference last November, Why (the Lucky Stiff) Carlisle gave a talk about yaml.rb. It was the first day, so I'm not sure you caught it. Anyway, I was just wondering if YAML had come across you radar yet, and what you thought of it. Cheers, Brian |
From: Brian I. <in...@tt...> - 2003-05-09 22:18:20
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Hi guys, I read http://www.artima.com/intv/plain.html last week. I kept wanting to interject "what about YAML?". When we were at the Ruby Conference last November, Why (the Lucky Stiff) Carlisle gave a talk about yaml.rb. It was the first day, so I'm not sure you caught it. Anyway, I was just wondering if YAML had come across you radar yet, and what you thought of it. Cheers, Brian Please excuse this second post. I misspelled a domain name on the first. |
From: Donnal W. <don...@ya...> - 2003-05-10 00:13:50
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--- Brian Ingerson <in...@tt...> wrote: > I read http://www.artima.com/intv/plain.html last week. I kept > wanting to interject "what about YAML?". I read the same article and had the exact same reaction. Regards, ===== Donnal Walter Arkansas Children's Hospital |
From: Dave T. <da...@pr...> - 2003-05-09 22:46:49
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Brian Ingerson wrote: > I read http://www.artima.com/intv/plain.html last week. I kept wanting > to interject "what about YAML?". > > When we were at the Ruby Conference last November, Why (the Lucky > Stiff) Carlisle gave a talk about yaml.rb. It was the first day, so I'm > not sure you caught it. > > Anyway, I was just wondering if YAML had come across you radar yet, and > what you thought of it. I like YAML a lot, and I'm really pleased that it's going to be included in 1.8. I've already given a couple of short talks on YAML here in Dallas, and I'll continue to spread the word. Cheers Dave |
From: Brian I. <in...@tt...> - 2003-05-10 04:48:03
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On 09/05/03 17:46 -0500, Dave Thomas wrote: > > Brian Ingerson wrote: > > I read http://www.artima.com/intv/plain.html last week. I kept wanting > > to interject "what about YAML?". > > > > When we were at the Ruby Conference last November, Why (the Lucky > > Stiff) Carlisle gave a talk about yaml.rb. It was the first day, so I'm > > not sure you caught it. > > > > Anyway, I was just wondering if YAML had come across you radar yet, and > > what you thought of it. > > I like YAML a lot, and I'm really pleased that it's going to be included > in 1.8. I've already given a couple of short talks on YAML here in > Dallas, and I'll continue to spread the word. Wow. That's great. I'm really glad you're playing with it. YAML is still quite young and it will take time to gain a general acceptance. But I'm confident it will eventually happen. It itches a lot of those sore spots you talked about. So far the reaction to YAML has been 95% positive. Mostly just regular folks working with data and saying, "Yeah, this is cool!". But it's nice to know there are some "voices of the community" like yourself who think it's useful. Please drop us a line on the mailing list if you have any problems, questions or success stories. Cheers, Brian |
From: why t. l. s. <yam...@wh...> - 2003-05-10 08:25:47
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Brian Ingerson (in...@tt...) wrote: > > > > I like YAML a lot, and I'm really pleased that it's going to be included > > in 1.8. I've already given a couple of short talks on YAML here in > > Dallas, and I'll continue to spread the word. > Speaking of which.. With Matz' blessing, I checked the latest version of Syck/YAML.rb into the Ruby CVS tree. I still have a weekend full of work to test and smooth out problems, but everything's in place for Ruby's 1.8.0 release. Both Matz and the whole Ruby community have been extremely supportive. If you're up to it, you might pop a message to Matz, thanking him for his openness to our project. Of course, a million handshakes to everybody here. _why |