awesome, that's exciting. -k
On Fri, Aug 15, 2014 at 4:36 PM, Nate Finch <nate.fi...@canonical.com> wrote: > Just wanted to let people know that Moonstone is ramping up on the > customer pain points, even ahead of the full spec and prioritization. I > had talked to Jorge and Marco about what they thought was important, and > they pointed out a couple of low hanging fruit. This was one of them. > > Many charms these days only contain one real hook script, and the rest are > all just symlinks to the real one. (because no one wants to write 20 > scripts) This is kind of a pain in the ass for charm writers, and doesn't > work well on Windows (Windows symlink support is terrible). So, why not > just have a default hook that gets called if the real hook isn't there? > That's what I implemented today: > > https://github.com/juju/juju/pull/528 > > There's new hook in town: default-hook. If it exists and a hook gets > called that doesn't have a corresponding hook file, default-hook gets > called with the name of the original hook as its first argument (arg[1]). > > That's it. > > If/when this PR is accepted, Marco is planning to update charmhelpers to > make it automatically recognize when the default-hook is called, and get > the hook name from arg[1] instead of arg[0], so current scripts wouldn't > even need to change - they'd just need the new charmhelpers, rename the one > true script to "default-hook", and delete all their symlinks. Bam. > > Moonstone is very excited to be working to make Juju easier for charm > developers, and we'll see more improvements coming next week. > > -Nate > > -- > Juju-dev mailing list > Juju-dev@lists.ubuntu.com > Modify settings or unsubscribe at: > https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/juju-dev > >
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