On Fri, 11 May 2018 08:24:51 -0700 (PDT) "ole.elgesem via dev-cfengine" 
<[email protected]> wrote: 

oevd> I would like feedback on a new feature. To enable policy which can both 
be 
oevd> imported as a library (inputs) and executed on it's own, I've introduced 
oevd> the *__main__* name for bundles. When the entry policy file has a 
*__main__* 
oevd> bundle it will be defined as main, however if it is in another imported 
oevd> file, it will be removed before evaluation (to avoid conflicting names). 
oevd> The old main bundle will still work as is.

oevd> Please tell me if you think this is useful, or if you have opinions on 
the 
oevd> syntax/semantics of this. The current C implementation might be changed.

I found names in CFEngine's evaluator to be tricky because of the way
variable names and resolution work, and preferred using tags. It's less
surprising for the users.

So in this case I wonder if adding a `runnable` tag to a bundle would be
better than requiring the name to be __main__. Or maybe even support
`autorun` in the C code, since it's already fairly standard and users
like it. As an added benefit, the tag approach allows multiple bundles
in one file to be runnable.

Ted

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