Jira (PUP-121) Deprecate and remove relative namespacing

[Andy Parker (JIRA)]

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Andy Parker commented on an issue   Re: Deprecate and remove relative namespacing After talking with Eric Sorenson, we are going to forego issuing a deprecation warning when a name resolution ends up resulting in a relative value. Instead in the next 3.x release it will simply always do absolute names when the future parser is enabled. Skipping the identification of actually deprecated areas should make many things much easier in the implementation. Add Comment   Puppet / PUP-121 Deprecate and remove relative namespacing This is the issue where `include apache` actually means “try to declare class `<current namespace>::apache`, class `<parent of current namespace>::apache`, and so on, eventually declaring `apache` as a last resort." This bites people in the wild frequently, and seem to be getting a steady stream of customer complaints about it. We seem to have nea... This message was sent by Atlassian JIRA (v6.1.4#6159-sha1:44eaede) -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Puppet Bugs" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to puppet-bugs+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To post to this group, send email to puppet-bugs@googlegroups.com. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/puppet-bugs. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.