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>>> I highly recommend against using import today and in the future. >> >> The cure is in this case worse, *much* worse, than the illness of >> having to do explicit imports. I'd rather have two dozen import >> lines in site.pp (which is what I have now) than having to split my >> classes and defines into almost 200 files in two dozen >> directories. > > I'll try to post an example soon, but you don't have to split it up > into "200 files" to take advantage of autoloading. You would need to > split it into "two dozen directories" though. > > On the other hand, you can put everything into site.pp. I'm sure > you'll agree that this is a mistake too. I use modules but I don't > split a module's manifest (init.pp) into different files until the > file starts to get large. > > For instance, you could put all your classes into > /modules/module-name/init.pp. This works well if all but one or two > class are really small. This is what I do by default because if I > put "include cups::client" in site.pp, puppet will auto import: > /modules/cups/init.pp /modules/cups/client.pp > /modules/cups/client/init.pp (I think this last one is true, but I > don't know) > > I like the different folders because it keeps the files and templates > with the manifests, and t makes it easier to tell which files can > safely be deleted. > > For me, the key to keeping things easy was to remember that I didn't > need to break a module into more than one file, but I could if they > got too big. +1 this is just small, clean and easy understandable. I got rid of every import in my manifests and I would consider them as code smell. cheers pete -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.10 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org/ iEYEARECAAYFAkwyNNYACgkQbwltcAfKi3+xSACfT+V4HTPHKXhdOf62ofGuI7Ng PfUAn3T5eFjKJtvk0WyJWwMOZpwZzAaQ =eQgf -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Puppet Users" group. To post to this group, send email to puppet-us...@googlegroups.com. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to puppet-users+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/puppet-users?hl=en.
