[ruby-core:30409] Re: [Bug #3112] require "yaml" doesn't use psych as default

I'm with Yehuda on this one. I have talked to people at pdx.rb who had 
to deal with invalid YAML problems arising from Syck. I don't see value 
in perpetuating invalid YAML. It would seem better to default to Psych 
and be able to better interoperate with other systems that generate 
correct YAML.

Monty Williams
MagLev Team

On 5/23/10 4:29 PM, Yehuda Katz wrote:
> Bump.
>
> I think the lack of a Syck maintainer, yet making Syck the default in 
> 1.9.2 needs to be addressed. 1.9.2 is probably going to be the 
> de-facto release for some time. What's the rationale for keeping an 
> unmaintained major component when a maintained version is available in 
> the standard library?
>
> Yehuda Katz
> Architect | Engine Yard
> (ph) 718.877.1325
>
>
> On Tue, May 18, 2010 at 11:31 AM, Aaron Patterson 
> <[e-mail] <mailto:[e-mail]>> wrote:
>
>     On Tue, May 18, 2010 at 08:30:14PM +0900, Yuki Sonoda wrote:
>     > Issue #3112 has been updated by Yuki Sonoda.
>     >
>     > Target version changed from 1.9.2 to 1.9.x
>     >
>     > I think syck works more or less correctly unlike dl2. So I want
>     to decide it conservatively. I don't want to switch the default
>     yaml engine to psych.
>
>     I'm afraid that if we use Syck as default, no one will see errors from
>     invalid YAML files.  If we make Psych as default, people will see
>     errors
>     with their YAML files but *have the option* to move back to Syck.
>
>     Are we going to remove Syck in 1.9.3?  If we don't make Psych
>     default in
>     1.9.2, it seems to me that we have to wait until 1.9.4 to remove Syck.
>
>     Since Syck has no active maintainer, it seems bad to wait so long to
>     remove it.
>
>     --
>     Aaron Patterson
>     http://tenderlovemaking.com/
>
>