On Tue, Feb 15, 2011 at 14:39, Matthew Pounsett <m...@conundrum.com> wrote:
> On 2011/02/14, at 12:21, Daniel Pittman wrote:
>
>> I think this discussion totally deserves a feature/bug report in redmine,
>> because both positions are reasonable. They do point to a hole where our
>> specifation seems vague, and where we *should* have made a decision: right
>> now we have a real chance of changing whatever the behaviour is by accident.
>>
>> Matthew, do you want to file this at https://projects.puppetlabs.com for us,
>> along with the why behind your desire?
>
> Will do.
>
> I'm actually mostly just concerned with having the relationship between the
> two directives clarified. Right now the docs don't say anything about how
> they interact. As Felix Frank wrote, I can work around the case where
> 'creates' ignores 'onlyif' by moving that test into my 'onlyif' directive.
Honestly, that is the thing I actually care about too. I want to make
sure we do specify it, and document that, so that we don't mess it up.
The only thing I like less than unspecified behaviour is changing
unspecified behaviour by accident. :)
I don't know which way the design decision will go, and suspect that
the "work around" will be the only blessed outcome with giving both
being an actual error, but we will see...
Thanks for filing that. It makes sure we don't lose track of this stuff.
Daniel
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