On 22 January 2014 21:01, Ashley Penney <[email protected]> wrote: > On Wed, Jan 22, 2014 at 1:15 PM, Henrik Lindberg < > [email protected]> wrote: > >> Recent Pull Requests to puppetlabs-stdlib has raised issues w.r.t how we >> should handle stdlib going forward. We have also had a discussion about >> types and providers in core and if they should be moved out to modules in a >> "tier2". That discussion also raises issues about >> backwards compatibility, and configuration of modules. >> >> I am posting this to trigger a discussion and to collect requirements. >> > > I figured I'd have a stab at some answers to get the ball rolling. > > >> * Is there content in stdlib that really belongs in core? >> > > Well, the validation stuff does and is covered by your type system, moving > forward. > > The stuff I would argue belongs in the core (and almost certainly > redesigned from what's in stdlib) are: > > 1) Validation, which comes in with the type system. We have all the > validate() and is_*() functions in stdlib. > 2) Better ways to get information from other parts of puppet: things like > getparam() in order > to be able to reach into a define for a value, getvar(), > get_module_path(), > 3) Better ways to handle duplicate resources: We have ensure_packages, > ensure_resources, all hacks to deal with duplication. > 4) Iteration over certain data. We know future parser has iteration which > solves most of this and the only other use cases are the has_*() functions > which will mostly be replaced by structured data and iteration. > > These were the things where we've got multiple functions and so they feel > like language issues to me. The rest is mostly genuine stdlib stuff. >
The to_bytes() function (which I added) is mostly there due to issues with Facter, that it prints human readable memory and disk sizes instead of machine readable ones. But perhaps this can be solved with Facter 2.0 so this function could eventually be removed or moved into its own module if people really want it. -- Erik Dalén -- 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 view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/puppet-dev/CAAAzDLdYHdu4t1dun8jA_2bem-5WMSbPuu4%3DRT4Fjos%2Bq_xG%3Dw%40mail.gmail.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out.
