On Wed, Jun 27, 2012 at 3:36 PM, llow...@oreillyauto.com <llow...@oreillyauto.com> wrote: > The dashes have been semi-supoported for a short while, and depreciated for > most of 2.7.x
Dashes in variable names started working again in 2.7.3. According to Daniel Pittman, they shouldn't have started working again. We looked at the documented behavior and decided to change Puppet to match the documentation. This change went into the 2.7.x branch and was released in 2.7.17. This is what happened and why it happened. Now... Forcing our users to refactor all of their manifests is something I'm not so keen on. Particularly in a minor release. Do you think we should continue allowing hyphens in variables in 2.7 and only "fix" this to error out in 3.0? > I had originally thought that 3.X would be the change where it went from > warning to error, but it looks like they pushed this out with 2.7.17 for > whatever reason. It was never a deprecation warning as far as I can tell. 2.6.16 errors out, as does 2.6.7 and 2.6.12. 2.7.0 and 2.7.1 did error out. 2.7.3 didn't error out for whatever reason and this was the point we accidentally regressed to allowing hyphens in variable names. This allowance remained all the way through 2.7.14. In 2.7.16 we "fixed" it again to error out with hyphens in variable names. This remained in 2.7.17. So, I think the story is... Don't use hyphens in variable names (and class names). We accidentally allowed them from 2.7.3 through 2.7.14 but we've gone back to it being an error. -Jeff -- 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.
