Found this on /r/programming today. Seemed relevant. Gist is that YAML spec is ambiguous and implementations seem to disagree widely on proper interpretation.
https://github.com/cblp/yaml-sucks > On Nov 10, 2017, at 10:37 AM, Andrew Glynn <aglyn...@gmail.com> wrote: > > YAML is what it says, lol. > > I still prefer using SGML and outputting whatever markup I need, although I > have to use US army software (that only works on Windows) to do it since > Adobe gouges for FrameMaker. > > Probably a long lasting hangover from working for IBM years ago. Sure was a > headache, so a hangover isn’t that surprising. > > Looking for the latest version of that software for a new Win 10 install I > came across one of the best quotes on Windows, especially considering the > source, though the quote must’ve been written about an old version. > > “With luck, this will start Windows, and a dialogue box will appear and tell > you the default drive into which IADS will be installed (C:). > > If Windows doesn't start up, you could always try launching Windows manually.” > > > Andrew > > > From: Stephane Ducasse <mailto:stepharo.s...@gmail.com> > Sent: Friday, November 10, 2017 1:21 PM > To: Any question about pharo is welcome <mailto:pharo-users@lists.pharo.org> > Subject: Re: [Pharo-users] QCMagritte on Github > > For your information. > We got some problem with travis (what a bad idea to have a syntax like > yaml - our industry is looping , even xml is better). > we spent more than 30 min trying with Guille and Andrew to use bash in > a script section (while this is working in some guille project) > it does not in other just because yaml does not know who to find the > end of a line.... > > Terrible! > > Stef > > On Wed, Nov 8, 2017 at 8:15 AM, stephan <step...@stack.nl> wrote: > > On 27-10-17 12:39, laurent laffont wrote: > >> > >> Hi, > >> > >> my team starts to use QCMagritte. For our needs we have imported > >> SmalltalkHub repository to Github here: > >> https://github.com/Afibre/QCMagritte > >> > >> I don't know if you (Diego, Stephan, Tobias) plan to use Github > >> instead of SmalltalkHub. At least Github allows branches & pull > >> request. > > > > > > Definitely, and I'm still struggling a bit with Iceberg. I would definitely > > favor a setup where the whole open source part is build on each commit using > > travis and images are put on (e.g.) bitbucket. > > The current jenkins builds are waiting for Diego to finish some changes, and > > he is a bit distracted with plans for a new house. > > > > Tobias told me he's also interested, so I assume he'll provide a modified > > baseline for other platforms. > > > > At a certain point we might want to fold all of QCMagritte back into > > Magritte, but that is a discussion for later I think. > > > > Stephan > > > >
