On Fri, Jul 12, 2013 at 8:19 AM, Brice Figureau < [email protected]> wrote:
> On Fri, 2013-07-12 at 03:52 -0700, Markus Burger wrote: > > We just released an internally developed puppet-networkdevice module > > in the hope that some other folks might be interested in it :). > Awesome! > > It's currently still in an early stage but should be pretty usable for > > the basic usecases. > > > > -> https://github.com/uniak/puppet-networkdevice > > > > ## Overview > > > > The Cisco Networkdevice Module provides a common way to manage various > > configuration properties with Puppet and was initially based on the > > network_device utility provided by Puppet. > > Your development is much more complete than my very limited > implementation, congrats! > > > Currently most providers, types, etc are suffixed with _ios as to > > avoid collusion with the network_device code already provided by > > puppet. > > That make sense, but you also apparently integrated some of the bits > that were in the core (I was thinking about the transport classes). > I won't speak for the core maintainers here, but that'd be great if you > could have used what was in the core. > > What was preventing you to use the mechanisms/features that were already > there? > Is that you wanted to modify/add things on top of that? > > So now that we have this module, is it time to remove all the cisco > stuff from the core, and leave only the base network device mechanism > (possibly enriched by some of the functionalities this module provides)? +1, it's always harder to iterate in puppet core, and much easier to improve as a module for these type of functionality. I would much rather update my module than upgrade puppet for these type of improvements. Thanks, Nan -- 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 post to this group, send email to [email protected]. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/puppet-dev. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out.
