-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Brice Figureau wrote: | | On Tue, June 16, 2009 14:29, Luke Kanies wrote: |> On Jun 16, 2009, at 4:38 AM, Kjetil Torgrim Homme wrote: |> |>> Luke Kanies <l...@madstop.com> writes: |>> |>>> Of course, once you do this, you're in for a world of hurt -- ten |>>> seconds after this gets merged, people will want node statements |>>> with regexes. |>> ok, I'll bite :) |>> |>> I don't care about node matching, but I really think case statements |>> should support it, too. ideally also selectors, although that may |>> pose a problem for the ephemeral values? |> Yeah, it seems like selectors should support regexes, too. | | Yes, I'll extend the syntax to the selectors, that makes sense. | | I've almost finished node matching, even though I'm not really satisfied | of how it works. Node matching is O(1) for the moment, but as soon as you | add regexp in the mix, it becomes essentially O(n) :-( | The other issue is that nothing is puppet is ready for non-string node | names :-(, so there are lots of place where I need to change things... | I'll see if I can refactor node names in a specific object to encapsulate | the functionality and matching... but I don't really see how it couldn't | be O(n). That might really be a penalty for people with a large number of | nodes... |
Since we're all having this conversation I guess some logical questions are what other language features? Loops? A lot of people want a loop syntax? Regards James Turnbull - -- Author of: * Pro Linux Systems Administration (http://tinyurl.com/linuxadmin) * Pulling Strings with Puppet (http://tinyurl.com/pupbook) * Pro Nagios 2.0 (http://tinyurl.com/pronagios) * Hardening Linux (http://tinyurl.com/hardeninglinux) -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.7 (Darwin) Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org iD8DBQFKOQ0d9hTGvAxC30ARAsVgAJ4x8ZZjulfve7SdDaMXomASG0zz1ACgmoUm Onw6sy3+DOV66OwKCATJFFI= =mVcW -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Puppet Developers" group. To post to this group, send email to puppet-dev@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to puppet-dev+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/puppet-dev?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
