On Thu, Mar 15, 2012 at 1:52 AM, Mark Burgess wrote: > > I have been thinking about the issue of metadata for bundles, e.g. such as > author and version, and have been through a number of alternatives in my head, > The problem I have with each of them is that they either change syntax in an > ad hoc way to something that is not a natural promise, or they separate the > metadata into a separate body. Neither of these seems acceptable. > > My best answer, which requires no immediate feature implementation is to do > this by best practices, using reserved variables. > > vars: > > "bundle_author" string => "kermit"; > "bundle_version" string => "1.2.3 frog legs"; > > These are private and can then be used as variables, and examined using > functions $(bundle.bundle_version) for validation.
Thank you, Mark. Metadata is variable so this solution fits the existing framework very well. Sincerely, Aleksey _______________________________________________ Help-cfengine mailing list Help-cfengine@cfengine.org https://cfengine.org/mailman/listinfo/help-cfengine
