On Thu, 2010-06-24 at 12:54 +0200, Rainer Gerhards wrote: > I have no experience with YAML. Will dig into it. But before I spent > lots of time there, could you do a quick rewrite of the config in YAML? > I'd like to grasp of how it looks, especially when applied to rsyslog > concepts (some things looked really nice, but only as long as they do > not need to express rsyslog configs ;)).
I have dug a bit through YAML on the web in the meantime. While it looks interesting, I have a concern about library availability for C. The YAML homepage points to two projects: - libyaml # "C" Fast YAML 1.1 - Syck # (dated) "C" YAML 1.0 where the Syck link (http://whytheluckystiff.net/syck/) seems to be dead (and I also could not found any other via Google). libyaml's homepage is here: http://pyyaml.org/wiki/LibYAML I have to admit it looks a bit like a construction site ;) The SVN (http://svn.pyyaml.org/libyaml/branches/stable/announcement.msg) mentions: "The library is functionally complete, but the documentation is scarce and the API is subject to change." Also, the Homepage claims it is a Google summer of code project, what for me has the co-notation of "will not be maintained in the future". A quick look at Ohloh seems to back this view (http://www.ohloh.net/p/6835/factoids/1863758): "Over the last twelve months, LibYAML has seen a substantial decline in development activity." I have not checked cross-platform availability of libyaml. So, in short: is this something we wont to bet rsyslog's config on? Again, I don't like to write a YAML parser just to get that format in... Comments and alternative library suggestions are highly welcome. At first glimpse, the format itself looks nice (but I did not try to express an rsyslog config in it, I would need to learn more about its subleties to do so). Rainer _______________________________________________ rsyslog mailing list http://lists.adiscon.net/mailman/listinfo/rsyslog http://www.rsyslog.com
