Hi Evelio, Thanks for taking the time to send us your feedback. I've got a couple comments inline.
On Fri, Jun 28, 2013 at 5:08 AM, Evelio VILA <[email protected]> wrote: > hi! > > i would like you to have some quick feedback about the introduction of the > "future parser" on puppet 3.2. > > One of the things i love about the Puppet DSL is its *simplicity*, and > here is why: > > I'm taking this to mean that you find that iteration constructs and new structures move the language away from simplicity and their utility does not offset that loss of simplicity. Is that right? > when you have more than one sysadmin producing manifests this is something > that > helps keep things clear, surtout on complex scenarios. > > makes modules easily re-ussable. (one of Puppet strong points) > > I do believe that create_resources, custom functions, and custom > types/providers are enough to make all sorts of > complicated stuff..... (or maybe i wrong?) > > We've found that many end up resorting to using inline templates to do many things that are not related to generating text, which is what a template is intended to be. Have you not found that to be the case for you? > having a simple dsl is nice (and is one of the reasons why i am not using > chef) ;) > > > dont get me wrong, i love Puppet ;) but IMHO *simple*, is always better.. > > I think we all agree with you there :) > > Evelio Vila > random sysadmin Once again, thank you for sending this in. > -- > 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. > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out. > > > -- Andrew Parker [email protected] Freenode: zaphod42 Twitter: @aparker42 Software Developer *Join us at PuppetConf 2013, August 22-23 in San Francisco - * http://bit.ly/pupconf13* **Register now and take advantage of the Early Bird discount - save 25%!* -- 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. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out.
