On 25 Jan 2011, at 10:30, Felix Frank <felix.fr...@alumni.tu-berlin.de> wrote:
> On 01/24/2011 09:39 PM, R.I.Pienaar wrote: >> >> >> ----- Original Message ----- >>> On Jan 24, 2011, at 11:17 AM, R.I.Pienaar wrote: >>> >>>> ----- Original Message ----- >>>>> If we don't want --manual you could go with --watch as that's >>>>> really >>>>> what I'm doing - watching puppet run. :) >>>> >>>> >>>> I like --watch too >>> >>> I hope this is a joke. I really think this name is a worse fit than >>> "--test". >> >> I run --test when I want to log into a machine and watch it do a run >> in a slightly more verbose and debug/observation friendly manner. >> 'watch' seems to describe this use case well, it doesnt imply that no >> changes will be made for example. >> >> I'd want to run --test when I want it to imply what --test does today >> but also --noop which is what most newcomers on irc also seem to think. >> The word 'test' seems to imply a dry run > > I was under the impression that there was consensus that the semantics > of --test should not be changed, ever, in order not to break scripts out > there in the wild. > Deprecating and loosing --test altogether seems to be less of a problem. I wasn't suggesting a change merely stating the expectation the word test creates. > > I concur with Patrick in that puppetd --watch is about as misleading as > --test itself. I'd expect such an invocation to allow me to monitor the > regular proceedings of the background agent. It doesn't appear to imply > a forced ad hoc action, much less the cache semantics. > > I still favor --manual. > > Regards, > Felix > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "Puppet Users" group. > To post to this group, send email to puppet-users@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. > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Puppet Users" group. To post to this group, send email to puppet-users@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.
