It's my understanding that we'd like to have more of both! People do write native (ruby) Types and Providers, and people do write them in Puppet language. We're working on some new features to make it easier to write Types in the Puppet Language, and we're working on some new features that make it easier to write Types and Providers in ruby. Eventually we'd like to decouple many of the bundled ruby-language Providers from the Puppet core codebase, so they can be developed in parallel to the framework. I don't think there's a philosophical decision in play - sometimes it's easier to express problems in the ruby, but often people already have working Puppet code that they want to convert into a Type.
~Jesse Wolfe On Mon, Jan 10, 2011 at 7:57 PM, Robin Lee Powell < rlpow...@digitalkingdom.org> wrote: > > So, I started with puppet about two years ago (December 2008). At > the time, I was under the impression that the list of Types would > grow a lot (i.e. > http://docs.puppetlabs.com/references/stable/type.html ). In fact, > the file type says: > > If you find that you are often copying files in from a central > location, rather than using native resources, please contact > Puppet Labs and we can hopefully work with you to develop a native > resource to support what you are doing. > > The thing is, that list hasn't actually changed all that much as far > as I can recall. > > Instead, what seems to have happened is a lot of user-made modules > as the code re-use unit; using the native features of puppet > (i.e. lots of file{...} and exec{...}) to emulate new types, > essentially; see > http://projects.puppetlabs.com/projects/puppet/wiki/Puppet_Modules > > I don't mean this as any kind of criticism, I'm just wondering if > this was on purpose? > > The goal with puppet seemed to be a simple, declarative > configuration system, where as many things as possible were handled > with native types, and that doesn't seem to be how things have > actually gone, and I'm wondering if this represents an injection of > pragmatism or a deliberate decision. > > -Robin > > -- > http://singinst.org/ : Our last, best hope for a fantastic future. > Lojban (http://www.lojban.org/): The language in which "this parrot > is dead" is "ti poi spitaki cu morsi", but "this sentence is false" > is "na nei". My personal page: http://www.digitalkingdom.org/rlp/ > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "Puppet Users" group. > To post to this group, send email to puppet-us...@googlegroups.com. > To unsubscribe from this group, send email to > puppet-users+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com<puppet-users%2bunsubscr...@googlegroups.com> > . > For more options, visit this group at > http://groups.google.com/group/puppet-users?hl=en. > > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Puppet Users" group. To post to this group, send email to puppet-us...@googlegroups.com. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to puppet-users+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/puppet-users?hl=en.
