Hi Rob,
The alternative would be to provide many of the well-known paths on
windows as facts.
file { "${::systemdrive}/somepath/bob": ... }
Not an obvious improvement.
A different question: is %PROGRAMFILES% always on %SYSTEMDRIVE% and
will people tend to write
file { "/Program Files/...": }
file { "/Windows/...": }
expecting it to work?
So I'm leaning more on the side of requiring explicit paths and against
magic.
Regards, David
On 2014-07-01 21:28, Rob Reynolds wrote:
Context,
Awhile ago I thought it might be a good idea to allow for some more
consistency in manifests where you would not need to specify the
drive
letter if you were going to the system drive on windows (usually c:
as
in c:/).
This is encapsulated in PUP-855[1].
This would allow for the ability to specify paths in somewhat the
same
way as they are specified on other systems, with the knowledge that
on
Windows, the "/" on the front of the path ("/somepath/bob") would
actually be translated to SYSTEMDRIVE, most times c:/
("c:/somepath/bob").
There is concern that this is non-deterministic and could possibly be
a problem, but this could potentially be useful for most folks.
Thoughts? Feedback?
[1] https://tickets.puppetlabs.com/browse/PUP-855 [1]
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