How to deal with unmaintained crates? (eg. yaml-rust)

• rustsec

  33 1,521 9.5 Rust

  RustSec API & Tooling

  

The RustSec Security Advisory Database includes "informational advisories" about unmaintained crates, and when possible, includes recommendations for maintained alternatives.

• yaml-cpp

  12 4,788 7.1 C++

  A YAML parser and emitter in C++

Some context, In my day job, I'm working on a custom format that is based on yaml but extends it. We're still using C++, so we the used yaml-cpp as a base for our parser and it was great for that purpose. laying with rust on Advent of Code lately I also got sent back to reality... Not having rust enums, match, great string handling, iterators when working with my AST was hard. So I wanted to try to implement the same parser in Rust as an example to my teammates of how great rust can be.

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• yaml-rust

  4 597 0.0 Rust

  A pure rust YAML implementation.

The first thing I did was to find the crate yaml-rust and it seems it isn't really maintained anymore. It has not been updated in a year and there's a lot of PR's and unresolved issues, the CI is broken... So here is my open ended question.

• crates.io

  660 2,796 10.0 Rust

  The Rust package registry

  

But there seems to be already a lot of forks, and I'm not convinced it is the best solution, there still would be dozens of repos using yaml-cpp and not would not benefit the dozens of repos that depends on it. Imagine someone creates a great fork, would it be possible to move ownership of the crate on crates.io to this new fork? (to me it seems really difficult without some sort of comity ruling this).

• syscall.rs

  1 258 10.0 Rust

  Discontinued Raw system calls for Rust

An example https://github.com/kmcallister/syscall.rs/network/members

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