On May 14, 2010, at 2:23 PM, R.I.Pienaar wrote:
>
> ----- "Luke Kanies" <[email protected]> wrote:
>
>
>>> since a specific stage isnt specified in the file, could the
>> dependency pull it into that stage?
>>>
>>> You'd still have a deadlock situation when there are resources in
>> multiple stages depending on a resource - they cant pull it into both
>> stages - but this should be a situation you can detect and report with
>> a specific error message that makes it clear thats the situation
>> rather than the usual resource cycle spew?
>>
>> I'm sure it could, but this is where things just start to get hairy
>> and gross.
>>
>> Before too long your pre stage would be completely full because we'd
>> followed the dependency chain and found that everything was moved
>> over.
>>
>> If this is something we're concerned about, I'd rather move back to
>> stages only affecting classes, forcing you to draw clean lines and
>> move the whole chunk into a given stage. Anything else becomes too
>> magical and thus too unmaintainable. It also discourages direct
>> cross-boundary relationships (that is, it discourages depending on a
>> resource rather than its containing class).
>
> yeah, you're right. I was happy with it only affecting classes personally
> but I guess leaving the thorns there is best.
>
> The barrier to entry around relationships and ordering is getting pretty
> massive in puppet as a whole
Do you think this plus the relationship syntax (including the many to many
resulting from relationships between collections) essentially cover the
concerns, or are there more steps we should be planning on taking?
--
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and the pessimist fears that this is true.
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