On Sep 27, 2010, at 7:04 AM, Brice Figureau wrote:
> Hi,
>
> It looks like I missed your original e-mail to puppet-dev.
>
> On Fri, 2010-09-24 at 11:20 -0700, Nigel Kersten wrote:
>> [cross-posting as I'd like to know whether my intuition about this
>> being the most common case is correct]
>>
>>
>> class foo {
>>
>> file { "/etc/foo.conf":
>> source => "puppet:///modules/foo/foo.conf",
>> }
>>
>> }
>>
>> For me, every single one of my source specifications refers to a file
>> inside the current module. My intuition is that this is the most
>> common case outside my own deployment, so why don't we optimize for
>> it?
>>
>> class foo {
>>
>> file { "/etc/foo.conf":
>> source => "foo.conf",
>> }
>>
>> }
>>
>> eg the proposal is that if you don't specify the protocol, server
>> address, modules prefix, module name, it is assumed you are referring
>> to a file path relative to the 'files' subdirectory of the current
>> module.
>>
>> If you wish to fully specify the source URI, you're free to do so.
>
> My issue with your proposal is that at first glance it will look like a
> local copy (which should require an absolute path) and not a remote
> copy. This certainly violate the least surprise paradigm for new users.
>
> What about a new URI scheme (ie module) which would do the same:
>
> class foo {
> file { "/etc/foo.conf":
> source => "module://foo.conf",
> }
> }
Another option is a new function:
class foo {
file { "/etc/foo.conf":
source => expand("foo.conf")
}
}
Then all of the smarts could be in expand().
OTOH, I think it's a bit think in terms of syntax. Backticks? :)
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