Sorry to derail for the moment but HOCON + JSON + YAML + XML? Sounds great.....
On Mon, Feb 23, 2015 at 9:57 AM, Chris Price <[email protected]> wrote: > On Sun, Feb 22, 2015 at 9:18 PM, Eric Sorenson < > [email protected]> wrote: > >> >> Hi Brice! This project is really cool, thanks for taking it on. I have a >> few comments about requirements and design that I hope can save some work >> and make it easier to include this upstream once it's done. >> >> I went back and surveyed redmine, jira, and ask.pl.com for bugs around >> auth.conf to see what people have run into over the years ( >> https://www.google.com/search?q=site%3Apuppetlabs.com+auth.conf&gws_rd=ssl >> <https://www.google.com/search?q=site:puppetlabs.com+auth.conf&gws_rd=ssl> ), >> and from those results plus recalling conversations with #puppet there seem >> to be a few general categories that we should examine when designing a >> replacement >> >> First, I don't think you need to try to make it compatible with the >> existing auth.conf format. It'd be good to take the opportunity to move to >> a structured data format that is easier to read and write programmatically, >> > > It would be cool if we could figure out a way to represent the rules in > HOCON, since that's the format we're using for pretty much all of our new > config files going forward. That way, the same modules and tooling that > we're building up around that data format could be used on the auth stuff, > and the syntax would start to look more consistent and familiar compared to > other new puppet config files. Since HOCON is basically a superset of JSON > I'm thinking that maybe the rules could be written as basically a big array > of maps. It'd be a little more verbose than the existing syntax, but I > think the tradeoffs might be worth it. > > (This is presuming, of course, that we don't find some other existing > model that we like, as Eric suggested.) > > > > -- > 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 view this discussion on the web visit > https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/puppet-dev/CAMx1QfL9TvgyWJ5__utWk12CQ3y_q0Wk63uJr6efMxoEk4gLeA%40mail.gmail.com > <https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/puppet-dev/CAMx1QfL9TvgyWJ5__utWk12CQ3y_q0Wk63uJr6efMxoEk4gLeA%40mail.gmail.com?utm_medium=email&utm_source=footer> > . > > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. > -- Trevor Vaughan Vice President, Onyx Point, Inc (410) 541-6699 [email protected] -- This account not approved for unencrypted proprietary information -- -- 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 view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/puppet-dev/CANs%2BFoVgeG5fYRqa3xkj9%3DKEQBpwB%2BUv%2BbRJsY0LoPTL8BZQ%3DQ%40mail.gmail.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
