Jira (PUP-7541) Explore removing export / collect / virtual / realize syntax

[Ben Ford (JIRA)]

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Ben Ford commented on PUP-7541   Re: Explore removing export / collect / virtual / realize syntax John Bollinger, no. Sorry I wasn't more clear. What I want is for collectors to not implicitly realize, just the same as you do. More specifically, I want collectors to do exactly one thing – just collect resources into a thing that you can do something with. If you want to add relationships, then yes, you can add relationships to a collection. If you want to realize, then yes, you can realize a collection. But simply invoking the collector shouldn't do anything other than collect. That would be a bigger breaking change, since so much current code relies on the side effect, but that's what I'd like long term. I'd also like a better query language, since there's currently not a way to collect "all packages except for those tagged as puppet_enterprise". The manifold type is simply a bandaid to separate the relationship case from the realize case without drastic language changes today. It can also be used on older Puppet versions. Add Comment   This message was sent by Atlassian JIRA (v7.7.1#77002-sha1:e75ca93) -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Puppet Bugs" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to puppet-bugs+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/puppet-bugs/JIRA.191187.1494891335000.3615.1580247661655%40Atlassian.JIRA.