On Tue, Aug 27, 2013 at 1:47 PM, Erik Dalén <[email protected]>wrote:

> On 27 August 2013 20:44, Andy Parker <[email protected]> wrote:
>
>> On Tue, Aug 27, 2013 at 10:21 AM, Jeff McCune <[email protected]>wrote:
>>
>>> If by "load everything" we're talking about something equivalent to
>>> include <modulepath>/**/*.pp then that's silly and should be avoided.  It
>>> would be a big step in the wrong direction, taking away control from the
>>> end user rather than giving them more control over the system.
>>>
>>> Markus suggested explicit loading.  Explicit loading is a much better
>>> approach.  It's more efficient, it's well understood by everyone, and it
>>> gives the end user explicit control over the behavior of the system.  It
>>> comes at the cost of a bigger impact to all of our users, but that's OK.
>>>  Puppet 4 shouldn't be that far off and we likely can make this behavior
>>> gated on a feature flag for Puppet 3.
>>>
>>>
>> Explicit loading would be another option. That would say that we get rid
>> of the manifest autoloader and require that everyone uses the import
>> keyword. That might be a good middle ground.
>>
>>
> In that case it would be good if include/require was
> import+include/require so you don't constantly have to type both. Then
> import would only really be needed when using defined types.
>
>
And....we are back at the autoloader :)


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