+1 for fixing the problem now, and refactoring facter after rowlf.

Ohad

On Tue, Feb 2, 2010 at 6:52 AM, Luke Kanies <[email protected]> wrote:

> On Jan 29, 2010, at 11:42 PM, James Turnbull wrote:
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>> On 30/01/10 6:08 PM, Luke Kanies wrote:
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>>> I generally agree with Jesse that it's heinous that we're using this
>>> type of solution, but the existing code is equally heinous.
>>>
>>> I'm comfortable with this change, albeit with the goal of refactoring
>>> more thoroughly at some later date.
>>>
>>> Or is it worth taking the intent of your patch and spending a bit more
>>> time on the code so it provides the needed functionality while being
>>> more maintainable in the long term?
>>>
>>>
>> We keep saying at "some later date" and digging ourselves further
>> and further into monkey patches.
>>
>> How about we bite the bullet and do a hard and fast refactor -
>> starting with these facts and releasing a 1.6.0?
>>
>
> Hmm.  I'm a bit up in the air on this.  Whomever takes this refactor on
> will be doing a significant memory swap, and it's likely to be a refactor of
> both the facts and Facter itself (to provide whatever necessary
> infrastructure for this kind of data sharing).
>
> Note that at this point it's a question of working on the features for
> rowlf or refactoring facter, and I'm not convinced that facter is the bigger
> win.  I'll check around internally, though, and see what we see.
>
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