On Thu, Jun 4, 2015 at 3:46 PM, Henrik Lindberg < henrik.lindb...@cloudsmith.com> wrote:
> In ticket https://tickets.puppetlabs.com/browse/PUP-4698 it is suggested > that fqdn_rand should change its return value to be a numeric value instead > of a string since it is common to compare it to a value later and string > comparison never falls back to a numeric comparison with future > parser/puppet 4.0.0. > > In a strict sense, fixing this bug is a breaking change and would have to > wait until puppet 5.0.0. OTOH, the consequence is that some may be silently > bitten because there is no error, only that logic takes a different part > because of a string compare instead of a numeric compare. > > What says the people here? Is this a breaking change that has to wait > until puppet 5.0.0, or can this be done for puppet 4.x ? Just as another data point, I did a quick review of the puppetlabs operations codebase and I'm pretty confident it won't cause problems for us. Would be good to hear from others, though. -- Daniel Dreier Technical Operations Engineer GPG: BA4379FD -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Puppet Developers" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to puppet-dev+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/puppet-dev/CAGk8subT1KUnnoM12yv9-Bh1L%3DuawzxzQayb9iootxCdBWHs%2BA%40mail.gmail.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
