Some business models use a 3-year lifecycle. Amortization and probably other stuff. Since you can't do math directly in Cfengine, a "lifecycle index" is a quick way of getting a value based o the year, for evaluating lifecycles.
Personally, I have no use for it - but other folks do! -Dan On May 7, 2011, at 10:44 PM, Nick Anderson wrote: > Will someone explain to me what this is used for? > > Perhaps I am dense, but I dont understand what the year number is, or > why it would be useful. > > A `lifecycle index', which is the year number modulo 3 (used in long > term resource memory). > > > -- > Nick Anderson <n...@cmdln.org> > _______________________________________________ > Help-cfengine mailing list > Help-cfengine@cfengine.org > https://cfengine.org/mailman/listinfo/help-cfengine _______________________________________________ Help-cfengine mailing list Help-cfengine@cfengine.org https://cfengine.org/mailman/listinfo/help-cfengine
