On Aug 28, 2013, at 12:38 PM, Andy Parker <[email protected]> wrote:

> On Wed, Aug 28, 2013 at 10:20 AM, Luke Kanies <[email protected]> wrote:
> On Aug 28, 2013, at 8:45 AM, Andy Parker <[email protected]> wrote:
> 
> >   * #8040 - anchor pattern. I think a solution is in sight, but it didn't 
> > make 3.3.0 and it is looking like it might be backwards incompatible.
> 
> Why would it be incompatible?
> 
> That implies that we can't ship it until 4.0, which would be a tragedy 
> worth fighting hard to avoid.
> 
> 
> The only possible problem, that I know of, would be that it would change the 
> evaluation order. Once things get contained correctly that might cause 
> problems. We never give very strong guarantees between versions of puppet, 
> but given the concern with manifest order, I thought that I would call this 
> out as well.

Do you mean, for 2 classes that should have a relationship but currently don't 
because of the bug (and the lack of someone using an anchor pattern to work 
around the bug), fixing that bug would cause them to have a relationship and 
thus change the order?

That is, you're concerned that the bug has been around so long it's considered 
a feature, and thus we can't change it except in a major release?

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