On Sat, Jan 26, 2013 at 4:31 AM, Sean Millichamp <[email protected]> wrote:
> ** > I've looked on the mailing lists and don't see any community discussion or > announcement of what is (to me) a major course change in significant Puppet > features, the deprecation of the existing Ruby DSL (expected) and the > decision to not replace it with the new one (not expected): > https://projects.puppetlabs.com/issues/18876 > > It was a fairly quick turn around on this and you are right that it didn't occur on the puppet-dev mailing list. There was some discussion that you can find in the archives of the #puppet-dev IRC channel ( http://puppetlogs.com/puppetdev/%23puppet-dev-2013-01-24.log.html). > Maybe I'm the only one who was looking forward to this, but this has me > pretty disappointed and somewhat concerned that this means a long-term > limitation of the sophistication and expressiveness available to modules. > > The ticket has an update by Andrew Parker indicating that Puppet language > is going to be worked on to address the shortcomings which might cause > someone to need to use the Ruby DSL. That's great news, I suppose, but > there is no indication of what Puppet Labs thinks those features are or > when we might see them and the new Ruby DSL felt "right around the corner". > > Part of that work is figuring out what those things are. In the IRC conversation you can see that the primary one that was brought up was iteration. Are there other things that you can think of? > Does anyone from PL want to comment? Personally, I'd love to see a "When > the Puppet DSL has these things fixed / enhanced, we think it will be all > you ever need" list. > > Sean > > -- > 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]. > Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/puppet-dev?hl=en. > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out. > > > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Puppet Developers" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/puppet-dev?hl=en. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out.
