On 27 August 2013 20:44, Andy Parker <a...@puppetlabs.com> wrote: > On Tue, Aug 27, 2013 at 10:21 AM, Jeff McCune <j...@puppetlabs.com> 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.
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