Any plan of implementing caching for 1.7? "Starting with Facter 1.7.0, you can now specify that the contents of a fact’s “setcode” block should be cached for faster retrieval."
Quote from http://docs.puppetlabs.com/guides/custom_facts.html -- Erik Dalén On Friday 2 November 2012 at 16:47, Andy Parker wrote: > Right now facter has a branch called 2.x, which was supposed to be getting > ready for a 2.0.0 release of facter. That hasn't happened yet and there are > quite a few changes on the 2.x branch (and master since there are no > differences between the two). I'd really like to see those changes be > released and after looking over them I think we should release most, but not > all, of those changes as a Facter 1.7.0. > > In my analysis of the changes between the 1.6.x branch and the 2.x branch I > found: > * external facts (new feature, backwards compatible) > * whitespace stripping (new feature, backwards incompatible) > * various new facts (backwards compatible) > * removal of the memorytotal fact (backwards incompatible) > * removal of the iphostnumber fact (backwards incompatible) > * changes to the memory facts (backwards incompatible) > > So the plan would be to make a 1.7.x branch off of master and revert those > backwards incompatible changes. Remove the 2.x branch and have development > toward Facter 2 take place on master. > > However, even with that, there would need to be some QA and testing love > given to the 1.7.x branch. I can make the branch and revert the obviously > problematic changes, but I'd really like some help on trying it out and > getting it in shape for a release. Other ways people could help out would be > to work out a way of making some of those changes not be backwards > incompatible (for instance the changes to the memory facts could probably be > fixed up). > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "Puppet Developers" group. > To post to this group, send email to [email protected] > (mailto:[email protected]). > To unsubscribe from this group, send email to > [email protected] > (mailto:[email protected]). > For more options, visit this group at > http://groups.google.com/group/puppet-dev?hl=en. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Puppet Developers" 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-dev?hl=en.
