LibYAML - A C library for parsing and emitting YAML.

The libYAML library was written by Kirill Simonov xi@resolvent.net and is currently maintained by the YAML community. It was originally developed for Python Software Foundation as a part of Google Summer of Code under the mentorship of Clark Evans.

Important. This is a fork of the official LibYAML project. It was initiated at a time when the original project appeared to have little to no activity. As the AIT framework intensively relies on this library we decided to do a bare bones fork which could evolve by its own while continuously monitoring the upstream master repository (see "How this repository was setup" below).

Build from source

1. Dependencies:

   • GNU AutoTools
   • GNU Gcc
   • GNU Libtool

2. Howto build from source code

   ./bootstrap
   ./configure
   make
   make install

Issues & discussion boards

• Issues: AIT related or specific to libyaml.
• IRC: #libyaml @ irc.freenode.net.
• Mailing list: YAML-Core

How this repository was setup

The repositories:

• yaml/libyaml is the upstream repository we want to monitor
• ISLEcode/ait-libyaml is the origin repository where we manage our copy of the C library

The working instructions:

1. Create empty GitHub repository (ISLEcode/ait-libyaml).

2. Clone the upstream libyaml Git repository we want to monitor.

   git clone https://github.com/yaml/libyaml libyaml
   cd libyaml
   

3. Remove the origin remote and add an upstream remote.

   git remote remove origin
   git remote add upstream https://github.com/yaml/libyaml
   

4. Bind the cloned repository to our GitHub repository

   git remote add origin https://github.com/ISLEcode/ait-libyaml
   git push --set-upstream origin master
   

5. Create a branch that we will use to sink with the upstream remote.

   git branch libyaml/master
   git push --set-upstream origin master
   

6. Now each time we want to sync with the upstream remote, all we need to do is:

   git checkout libyaml/master
   git pull upstream master
   

See also:

• Learn Git branching
• A hacker's guide to Git