Package request php-yaml

[newbit1]

Why is it worth to add this package?

Hi,

i would live to use a telegram backup bot on Android. So far I could install all depencies but php-yaml.

I even Compiled the source from pecl but there some Version strings messing, so it won't run.

The Script calls the Funktion yaml_parse_file

Thanks in advance for looking into it. NewBit

Home page URL

https://pecl.php.net/package/yaml/2.2.3

Source code URL

https://pecl.php.net/get/yaml

Packaging policy acknowledgement

• [X] The project is actively developed.

• [X] The project has existing packages and is "well known".

• [X] Licensed under an open source license.

• [X] Not available through a language package manager: pip, npm, cpan, cargo, etc.

• [X] Not taking up too much disk space (< 100MiB per architecture, exceptions can be made)

• [X] Not duplicating the functionality of existing packages.

• [X] Not serving hacking, malware, phishing, spamming, spying, ddos functionality.

• [X] I certify that I have read Termux Packaging Policy and understand that my request will be denied if it is found lacking.

Additional information

No response

[TomJo2000]

The module is about half C.


So that should pass the "Not available through a language package manager: pip, npm, cpan, cargo, etc." hurdle.

For auto-updating's sake using the GitHub source repo would be preferable. https://github.com/php/pecl-file_formats-yaml

I'm still not sure it doesn't run afoul of the "no libraries without dependents" part of our packaging policy. ^{Which I am yet again reminded should be added to the template.} Point being, the only PHP modules we package are the ones packaged directly with PHP. It might be a better fit for the [TUR](https://github.com/termux-user-repository/tur?tab=readme-ov-file#termux-user-repository-tur). Though there are also no PHP modules currently packaged there apart from the ones that are part of PHP7.

[newbit1]

What about pecl Implementation into termux? I've read quite some issues about it, but it never made it in.

[TomJo2000]

I'm not really familiar with PHP or PECL, but I suspect it has similar problems to Python's Pip when it comes to building certain modules.