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Re: pyyaml package


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Chad Gorshing wrote:
> Lately I have begun using pyyaml on a few projects and when using
> cygwin, I install pyyaml manually.  It is trivial enough and I don't
> have a problem doing this.  But I started wondering why this wasn't in
> cygwin to start with.

Because nobody has contributed it yet.

> I have searched the mailing list and so far I have not found anything
> related to pyyaml.  Also as I have never contributed a package I will
> be slow to start up, but I was curious if anybody felt this would be a
> bad idea or already thinking about it or doing it?

The package is in Debian testing[1], so there is some precedent for
including it.  As for packaging it, read this[2] first; I recommend
Method Three (cygport) for building packages, but then again, I'm
biased. :-)

[1] http://packages.debian.org/source/lenny/pyyaml
[2] http://cygwin.com/setup.html


Yaakov
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