On Aug 26, 2010, at 12:58 PM, Douglas Garstang wrote:

> Anyone know if there's a plan to allow definitions to be used in
> external nodes? Not having that ability is a major pain in the ass. It
> really means that all that really works with external nodes is really
> simple cases of a single piece of software being installed and
> configured, like apache for example.

I've used external nodes all along and never found this to be a limitation. 
Classes can do much much more than one thing, so I'm not sure what you mean.

External nodes can have classes and variables. Classes can call definitions. 
Facts and variables can be passed to those definitions.

What additional functionality would you get?

-- 
Rob McBroom
<http://www.skurfer.com/>


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