On Sep 22, 2009, at 11:37 AM, Eric Sorenson wrote:
>
>
> On Sep 18, 2009, at 4:42 PM, Luke Kanies wrote:
>
>> I've been getting the feeling recently that we haven't been keeping
>> the language updated well enough with problems in the domain, so
>> being
>> more flexible about what problems we should be trying to solve can
>> help resolve some of that.
>>
>> Any other opinions?
>
> As the instigator of this, I'll chime in and say the existing
> behaviour is OK as long as (a) the precedence rules are more clear
> (James has already added them to the relevant wiki pages) and (b) it's
> made more explicit that anything beyond trivial static nodes really
> ought to be pushed out to an external classifier.
>
> IMO it would greatly help (b) if such a classifier were included in
> source, a'la this thread from last year regarding nodify:
>
> http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/msg00038.html
>
> Unless I misssed it somewhere, nodify doesn't actually exist. There's
> a couple of classifier examples on the ExternalNodes wiki page and the
> book, but they're a bit too simplistic to be useful (plus they're not
> in Ruby). Since this thread made it clear I was going about nodes the
> wrong way, I've written an ENC that should hopefully be general enough
> for other people to use. I'll work on getting it cleaned up and
> submitted if others agree it'd be helpful.
You're correct, it doesn't, we're working steadily to get something
simple out the door (but it'll be creatively called Puppet Node
Manager, I think).
In the meantime, you're right that we should have examples published.
I've got a couple of simple scripts that we could reasonable add to
ext/, I'll see if I can do that.
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