And this is why he gets awards... +1
On Thu, Feb 12, 2015 at 9:12 AM, Erik Dalén <[email protected]> wrote: > A related ticket to the interface and redirect functionality is > https://tickets.puppetlabs.com/browse/FORGE-111 > > There I just suggest the feature to be able to say that module B provides > the interface of module A version X. So either module can satisfy a > dependency on module A version X. > Then if you want to have some sort of generic interface that other modules > can implement, you could have a sort of virtual module with he version > being the interface version. And then other modules provide or depend on > that virtual module. The meaning of virtual module here is the same as for > virtual packages in package managers, like "ruby-interpreter" or > "smtp-server" in Debian, and the implementation would also be pretty > similar. > > > Regarding having multiple variants or versions of a module being installed > at the same time I think we should change the environment loader API to > provide a list of modules instead of a list of module paths. Then plugins > could implement any sort of behaviour for this without jumping through > hoops. > > Basically I think that would mean deprecating this: > https://github.com/puppetlabs/puppet/blob/master/lib/puppet/node/environment.rb#L144-L150 > And changing this method to return list of paths to individual modules > instead of names of modules: > https://github.com/puppetlabs/puppet/blob/master/lib/puppet/node/environment.rb#L233-L241 > > > On Thu Feb 12 2015 at 10:32:24 AM R.I.Pienaar <[email protected]> wrote: > >> >> >> ----- Original Message ----- >> > From: "Dominic Cleal" <[email protected]> >> > To: "puppet-dev" <[email protected]> >> > Sent: Thursday, February 12, 2015 10:30:21 AM >> > Subject: Re: [Puppet-dev] Thoughts on Module Namespace Conflicts >> >> > On 11/02/15 18:13, Trevor Vaughan wrote: >> >> Heh, that's probably because it's the third hit in the list when you >> >> search for Apache on the Forge. >> >> >> >> Is there a way for people to mark Forge modules as unmaintained? >> > >> > Not as far as I know. I ought to upload a new release with a big >> > warning in the README. All I've done for the meantime is add a >> > "deprecated" tag, which isn't a big help. >> > >> > There's a similar issue I have with augeasproviders. Again I've yet to >> > update the README in domcleal/augeasproviders to indicate that >> > herculesteam/augeasproviders is the maintained version, but it would be >> > great to be able to mark this as such in the Forge, or even redirect to >> > another module. >> >> redirects would be nice, I have the same problem with ripienaar/concat and >> puppetlabs/concat >> >> -- >> 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/100231099.15755.1423733538852.JavaMail. >> zimbra%40devco.net. >> For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. >> > -- > 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/CAAAzDLe5OC2Y44_P2ovuCFnZ2iw3uZEN-Sgic_pjcamYyNVHrQ%40mail.gmail.com > <https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/puppet-dev/CAAAzDLe5OC2Y44_P2ovuCFnZ2iw3uZEN-Sgic_pjcamYyNVHrQ%40mail.gmail.com?utm_medium=email&utm_source=footer> > . > > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. > -- Trevor Vaughan Vice President, Onyx Point, Inc (410) 541-6699 [email protected] -- This account not approved for unencrypted proprietary information -- -- 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/CANs%2BFoWc9PW%3DBsvN09cgkXo5pY8Q-s8S1a_XKS5ZoYxBnLjuug%40mail.gmail.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
