I'd like to add a vote to the direction that RI and James are taking this. Variables have been painful from the beginning and it would be nice to have a seriously concrete system to work with.
When making this decision, please look at how class auto-scoping (modules/foo vs. modules/bar/foo) will affect things and how these variables will be referenced from templates. If we have to type a mile long string to get to a variable, it's going to make for much more difficult to debug and maintain code. Thanks, Trevor On Tue, Apr 17, 2012 at 12:21 PM, James Turnbull <ja...@puppetlabs.com> wrote: >> We should either say we have a data story that revolves around: >> >> - facts >> - parameterized classes >> - ENCs and systems like Hiera >> >> these are all hard non magical things, you know where your variables come >> from. You know what they are and what can override them. Mix in the @facts >> style syntax and this story becomes even clearer. >> >> If we were to expand this list to include: >> >> - magical node variables that can override top scope vars in some cases >> >> >> Then it's quite clear to me which is the elephant in the room and shouldnt >> be there. >> > > Whilst I'm not so keen on the @facts syntax I agree with RI. We already > have magic variables (which have changed their magical properties > several times since my involvement with the project) we don't need > anymore magic. > > James > > -- > James Turnbull > Puppet Labs > 1-503-734-8571 > To schedule a meeting with me: http://tungle.me/jamtur01 > > -- > 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. > -- Trevor Vaughan Vice President, Onyx Point, Inc (410) 541-6699 tvaug...@onyxpoint.com -- This account not approved for unencrypted proprietary information -- -- 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.
