Nathan wrote: > My point is not to complain about all these things but to try to > discuss the direction of facter. I got the impression that the main > reason behind not adding a bit of intelligence to the facts in these > cases was because of code base size, which again I may be mistaken > about. > > Let me tell you if you made a version of facter that was 100MB and > always was consistent and correct, I would install it on everything > happily. >
So ... whilst not addressing your core issue I wanted to talk about my favourite poor cousin, Mr Facter. The reason Facter doesn't get a lot of love is because it currently does pretty much what everyone wants. It's not perfect - it'd be awesome for example to have non-Ruby facts and values other than strings for example - but largely this isn't killing anyone. Whereas there are some other bugs and features in Puppet that cause people real pain or gain them serious advantage. We've pretty much laid out what we want Facter to be/do: http://projects.puppetlabs.com/projects/facter/wiki/ArchitectureForTwoDotOh (which anyone is welcome to add/comment on/etc). Now we need to find resources to do it in line with the other priorities on our plate. It's certainly not related to the size of the code base ... which is tiny. Nigel may also chime in here with some comments I am sure. Cheers James -- Puppet Labs - http://www.puppetlabs.com C: 503-734-8571 -- 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.
