[ANN] Syck 0.55 -- Object loading, memory leaks

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Syck is, at present, the de facto YAML library for Ruby. <http://whytheluckystiff.net/syck/>

YAML is a serialization language. Hopefully readable. Sensible to the parser in some eyeballs. <http://yaml.org/>

Syck 0.55 patches some memory leaks and parse errors. Loading of objects is now much smoother. Support for using your own yaml_initialize or yaml_new methods. (See lib/yaml/rubytypes.rb for examples.) I'd say typing is done at this point.

A bit more debugging and I will merge with Ruby CVS.

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Ok, I installed Syck 0.55...

p YAML::load(YAML::dump("a"*4097))

"aaaaaaa[lots more a's]aaaaaaaaaa--- a"

I don't think the "--- " should be there...

There seems to be a problem with any strings 4095 or more in length.

Regards,
Stephen Sykes