Thanks, Nick. (I should have checked that issue tracker.) I see there are 50 comments on the ticket, with some interesting debate. It looks to be decidedly non-trivial, so I'll probably back away from my initial rush of enthusiasm.
-- David On Saturday, 11 May 2019 19:24:05 UTC+1, Nick Anderson wrote: > > It is absent, unfortunately. There is a ticket here > https://tracker.mender.io/browse/CFE-2215 > > I don't know of any surprises. And while it's quite annoying to be > missing, it just hasn't risen to a high enough priority for us to implement > it (though we would love to have it). > > > > On Sat, May 11, 2019 at 7:37 AM David Lee <[email protected] > <javascript:>> wrote: > >> There is a 'users' promise-type: >> >> https://docs.cfengine.com/docs/3.12/reference-promise-types-users.html >> >> So it would seem natural for there to be an analogous 'groups' >> promise-type. Indeed, wouldn't a site wishing to use 'users' reasonably >> expect also to find 'groups'? But it seems to be absent. Is there any >> particular reason for this surprising absence? >> >> If I were to think about coding it, modelled after 'users', are there any >> "surprise points" that might have tripped up previous explorers of this >> terrain? >> >> -- David Lee >> >> -- >> You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups >> "dev-cfengine" group. >> To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an >> email to [email protected] <javascript:>. >> To post to this group, send email to [email protected] >> <javascript:>. >> To view this discussion on the web visit >> https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/dev-cfengine/1803a04b-b38c-4c88-9c83-53c81a73ff93%40googlegroups.com >> >> <https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/dev-cfengine/1803a04b-b38c-4c88-9c83-53c81a73ff93%40googlegroups.com?utm_medium=email&utm_source=footer> >> . >> For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. >> > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "dev-cfengine" 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]. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/dev-cfengine/352b6cbd-e847-41f9-a2ce-78743ae85118%40googlegroups.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
