On Thu, Jun 4, 2015 at 3:46 PM, Henrik Lindberg < [email protected]> wrote:
> In ticket https://tickets.puppetlabs.com/browse/PUP-4698 it is suggested > that fqdn_rand should change its return value to be a numeric value instead > of a string since it is common to compare it to a value later and string > comparison never falls back to a numeric comparison with future > parser/puppet 4.0.0. > > In a strict sense, fixing this bug is a breaking change and would have to > wait until puppet 5.0.0. OTOH, the consequence is that some may be silently > bitten because there is no error, only that logic takes a different part > because of a string compare instead of a numeric compare. > > What says the people here? Is this a breaking change that has to wait > until puppet 5.0.0, or can this be done for puppet 4.x ? Just as another data point, I did a quick review of the puppetlabs operations codebase and I'm pretty confident it won't cause problems for us. Would be good to hear from others, though. -- Daniel Dreier Technical Operations Engineer GPG: BA4379FD -- 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/CAGk8subT1KUnnoM12yv9-Bh1L%3DuawzxzQayb9iootxCdBWHs%2BA%40mail.gmail.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
