Please no backticks or other characters like "~", those of us who do
not have a U.S. keyboard layout have a hard time typing them (2-to-3
keys combinations in some cases).
On Sep 28, 7:33 am, Patrick <kc7...@gmail.com> wrote:
> On Sep 27, 2010, at 10:08 PM, Luke Kanies wrote:
>
>
>
>
>
> > On Sep 27, 2010, at 7:04 AM, Brice Figureau wrote:
>
> >> Hi,
>
> >> It looks like I missed your original e-mail to puppet-dev.
>
> >> On Fri, 2010-09-24 at 11:20 -0700, Nigel Kersten wrote:
> >>> [cross-posting as I'd like to know whether my intuition about this
> >>> being the most common case is correct]
>
> >>> class foo {
>
> >>> file { "/etc/foo.conf":
> >>> source => "puppet:///modules/foo/foo.conf",
> >>> }
>
> >>> }
>
> >>> For me, every single one of my source specifications refers to a file
> >>> inside the current module. My intuition is that this is the most
> >>> common case outside my own deployment, so why don't we optimize for
> >>> it?
>
> >>> class foo {
>
> >>> file { "/etc/foo.conf":
> >>> source => "foo.conf",
> >>> }
>
> >>> }
>
> >>> eg the proposal is that if you don't specify the protocol, server
> >>> address, modules prefix, module name, it is assumed you are referring
> >>> to a file path relative to the 'files' subdirectory of the current
> >>> module.
>
> >>> If you wish to fully specify the source URI, you're free to do so.
>
> >> My issue with your proposal is that at first glance it will look like a
> >> local copy (which should require an absolute path) and not a remote
> >> copy. This certainly violate the least surprise paradigm for new users.
>
> >> What about a new URI scheme (ie module) which would do the same:
>
> >> class foo {
> >> file { "/etc/foo.conf":
> >> source => "module://foo.conf",
> >> }
> >> }
>
> > Another option is a new function:
>
> > class foo {
> > file { "/etc/foo.conf":
> > source => expand("foo.conf")
> > }
> > }
>
> > Then all of the smarts could be in expand().
>
> > OTOH, I think it's a bit think in terms of syntax. Backticks? :)
>
> Single quotes are popular enough that I think backticks would be a nightmare.
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