On 03/15/2012 02:11 PM, no-re...@cfengine.com wrote: > Forum: CFEngine Help > Subject: Re: CFEngine Help: Bundle meta data > Author: mark > Link to topic: https://cfengine.com/forum/read.php?3,25271,25283#msg-25283 > > Yes, Eystein, > > I see that this is possble. Not sure whether it is a step forwards or > backwards though, > > The value => association is really just a variable substitution, so why not > use a variable and then you will have access to its value for testing in > class expressions, etc, abort class if version number is too small...etc. > Also, the value would then be automatically placed in the right context of > the variables report. > > Then "meta" is just an alias for "vars", i.e. a best practice. It might be > aesthetically desirable.
That seems like a simple solution, but will that alias be cause for confusion? While metadata may be just a subset of variables if it were an alias that would mean that all variables are metadata and all metadata are variables. -- Nick Anderson <n...@cmdln.org> _______________________________________________ Help-cfengine mailing list Help-cfengine@cfengine.org https://cfengine.org/mailman/listinfo/help-cfengine
