Re: [Puppet-dev] A question about numbers and representation

2014-09-02 Thread markus
Most serialization formats can simply not deal with 64 bit values as regular numbers. They may do horrible things like truncation, or use the max/min value if a value is too big, or for floating point drastically lose precision. Eh. It's not that the serialization formats can't deal with

Re: [Puppet-dev] A question about numbers and representation

2014-09-02 Thread Daniele Sluijters
2) warn people about cases where where using code in other languages could lead to problems. Unless we want to keep track of every language and how the multiple libraries that exist handle serialisation and deserialisation that's pretty much impossible. Oh but this breaks in Scala but works

[Puppet-dev] Re: A question about numbers and representation

2014-09-02 Thread Henrik Lindberg
On 2014-02-09 8:39, markus wrote: Most serialization formats can simply not deal with 64 bit values as regular numbers. They may do horrible things like truncation, or use the max/min value if a value is too big, or for floating point drastically lose precision. Eh. It's not that the

Re: [Puppet-dev] A question about numbers and representation

2014-09-02 Thread Ken Barber
TL;DR - I want to specify the max values of integers and floats in the puppet language for a number of reasons. Skip the background part to get to Questions and Proposal if you are already familiar with serialization formats, and issues regarding numeric representation. TL;DR: from a PuppetDB

Re: [Puppet-dev] Announce: nightly repos available

2014-09-02 Thread Matthaus Owens
I have just enabled the gem for puppet's test run, so that should begin shipping with new green runs. I also enabled trusty for facter nightlies. Thanks for the feedback and thanks for using them! On Fri, Aug 29, 2014 at 11:29 AM, Wil Cooley wcoo...@nakedape.cc wrote: On Fri, Aug 29, 2014 at

Re: [Puppet-dev] Facter version guarantees

2014-09-02 Thread John Bollinger
On Saturday, August 30, 2014 3:10:14 AM UTC-5, David Schmitt wrote: Hi, I really like the points Eric, Wil and Henrik have brought up. Here're some more from me. On 2014-08-29 23:11, Kylo Ginsberg wrote: [Splitting this out of the original thread which was the Facter 2.2.0

[Puppet-dev] Re: A question about numbers and representation

2014-09-02 Thread John Bollinger
On Monday, September 1, 2014 3:55:03 AM UTC-5, henrik lindberg wrote: Hi, Recently I have been looking into serialization of various kinds, and the issue of how we represent and serialize/deserialize numbers have come up. [...] Proposal I would like to cap a Puppet

Re: [Puppet-dev] Platform Team Week ending August 22nd, 2014

2014-09-02 Thread Andy Parker
On Sun, Aug 24, 2014 at 4:54 PM, Kylo Ginsberg k...@puppetlabs.com wrote: ** Next PR Triage Wednesday, August 27th @ 10:00 am Pacific. ** Priorities 1. Puppet 3.7.0 with the final language polish as well as many other changes. 2. Windows stability improvements/x64 support 3. Facter

Re: [Puppet-dev] Re: Announce: nightly repos available

2014-09-02 Thread Felix Frank
On 08/28/2014 06:17 PM, Henrik Lindberg wrote: We really hope that the puppet4 and facter2 branches were a special circumstance. It is not our intention to have long running feature branches. As soon as 3.7.0 is released, the puppet4 branch will be merged to master, and the puppet4 branch will

Re: [Puppet-dev] Announce: nightly repos available

2014-09-02 Thread Kylo Ginsberg
On Fri, Aug 29, 2014 at 1:55 AM, Dominic Cleal dclea...@redhat.com wrote: On 26/08/14 18:23, Eric Sorenson wrote: The repos are live now and you can try them out by following these directions: https://docs.puppetlabs.com/guides/puppetlabs_package_repositories.html#using-the-nightly-repos