On Jun 3, 2011, at 5:52 PM, Daniel Pittman wrote: > On Fri, Jun 3, 2011 at 16:18, Nick Fagerlund > <nick.fagerl...@puppetlabs.com> wrote: >> (For reference: https://projects.puppetlabs.com/issues/7783) >> >> In 2.7, we have both a "cert" application and a new "certificate" face- >> based app, and they both have a "generate" action. Unfortunately, they >> do completely different things: `puppet cert generate rhubarb.pie.lan` >> makes a new signed certificate, and `puppet certificate generate >> rhubarb.pie.lan --ca-location remote` submits a certificate signing >> request to the CA. That's bad and confusing. >> >> I would suggest just renaming the action, but since we already have a >> certificate_request face, I think we should move it there. (And then >> rename it, preferably to "submit".) Does everyone agree on this call, >> or is there a better option I've missed? > > I think we should build an entirely new Face for interacting with the > certificate subsystem, which is a higher level abstraction over the > concepts that the user is going to be familiar with. Something more > akin to the "legacy" application than the indirection-based faces we > currently have. > > That gives us a chance to build a solid abstraction without the > separation that the indirections imply, focused on higher level > concerns. Obviously, this will consume the underlying faces we have > today, to achieve those results.
That's essentially what the existing 'cert' application is. What would you call this new face? And I assume you'd be seeing this for the next major release, right? -- Hanlon's razor: Never attribute to malice that which can adequately be explained by stupidity. --------------------------------------------------------------------- Luke Kanies -|- http://puppetlabs.com -|- http://about.me/lak -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Puppet Developers" group. To post to this group, send email to puppet-dev@googlegroups.com. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to puppet-dev+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/puppet-dev?hl=en.
