On 03/08/2025 9:52 am, Christoph Grüninger wrote: > Dear Xen developers, > > you are using the dependency yajl (yet another json library, [1]) to > parse JSON files. The project seems abandoned with the last commit 10 > years ago, the last release over 11 years ago, and 75 open pull > requests. Packaging yajl requires patches, e.g., to make it compatible > with CMake 4.0. > There are some forks but none has replaced the old one yet [2]. > > I think there are three paths forward: > 1. Xen could pick a prominent fork and use it as its main dependency. > 2. Xen could create a fork of its own, hopefully attracting more > people interested in an maintained successor of yajl. > 3. Switch to a different JSON parser library that remained healthy. > > Sure, you could stick to option 4., do nothing an offload the burden > to fix yajl to distribution packagers. > > Xen is an important project and its decision can create momentum that > might lead other projects. > > [1] https://github.com/lloyd/yajl > [2] https://github.com/lloyd/yajl/issues/252
CCing the libxl maintainers. ~Andrew
