Post #1332109
2026-02-23 21:51 UTC
@matk
I would claim, this is an incarnation of the design decision of yaml, called the Norway problem.
Just imagine you want to package the 'yes' binary and all of a sudden your scripts complain about true not being a string.
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@nil@furry.engineer 2026-02-23 22:00
@x9c4 @matk Just say Norway to YAML
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@matk@mastodon.social 2026-02-23 22:06
@x9c4 Some design decisions of YAML were pretty atrocious, fortunately YAML 1.2 fixed most of them, and with libfyaml AppStream now uses a library that can parse & emit YAML 1.2 properly.