Issue #7788 has been updated by Ryan Coleman.
+1 from me. Modules & plugin-sync is great for delivering types, facts and other content to an Agent just-in-time for use in manifests. It's not a great platform for delivering things like Functions & Faces, especially those that require third-party software like cloud provisioner and fog. Allowing users to distribute this content and more via gems seems like a natural fit (though later, native system packages too). Side-note: I want to ensure that the Forge becomes a great place to discover Puppet content regardless of its delivery mechanism. If gems become a way to distribute Puppet content, you can expect the Forge to help you discover it. ---------------------------------------- Feature #7788: Puppet should allow rubygems to deliver new functionality https://projects.puppetlabs.com/issues/7788#change-65635 Author: R.I. Pienaar Status: In Topic Branch Pending Review Priority: Normal Assignee: Nigel Kersten Category: plug-ins Target version: 3.0.0 Affected Puppet version: Keywords: rubygems autoloader Branch: https://github.com/puppetlabs/puppet/pull/873 It would be desirable to use Rubygems to install things like parser functions. There might be cases where you only want a function on the master, pluginsync would copy it everywhere and everywhere might not have the dependencies needed to run it. If the autoloader considered the rubygem search path while autoloading this should allow gems to extend puppet. -- You have received this notification because you have either subscribed to it, or are involved in it. To change your notification preferences, please click here: http://projects.puppetlabs.com/my/account -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Puppet Bugs" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected]. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/puppet-bugs?hl=en.
