On Sun, Jan 23, 2011 at 7:30 PM, Patrick <kc7...@gmail.com> wrote: > > On Jan 23, 2011, at 4:49 PM, Stefan Schulte wrote: > >> On Sun, Jan 23, 2011 at 03:48:16PM -0800, Nigel Kersten wrote: >>> On Sun, Jan 23, 2011 at 3:38 PM, Dan Bode <d...@puppetlabs.com> wrote: >>>> On Sun, Jan 23, 2011 at 3:35 PM, Daniel Pittman <dan...@puppetlabs.com> >>>> wrote: >>>>> >>>>> My inclination is to say that "ontime" or "verbose" have stolen the name >>>>> for another concept; perhaps "interactive" covers the standard use-case >>>>> well >>>>> enough? >>>>> >>>>> Daniel >>>>> >>>>> On Jan 23, 2011 2:45 PM, "Patrick" <kc7...@gmail.com> wrote: >>>>>> >>>>>> On Jan 23, 2011, at 1:50 PM, Adam Nielsen wrote: >>>>>> >>>>>>>> https://projects.puppetlabs.com/issues/2476 >>>>>>>> >>>>>>>> This does seem to confuse a fair few new users. >>>>>>>> >>>>>>>> What would be a better name for "--test"? >>>> >>>> maybe we could keep --test and add --noop to the list of options in sets. >>> >>> That would take away the current functionality, which is immensely useful. >>> >>> You'd be required to spell out all the --onetime --no-daemonize stuff by >>> hand. >>> >>> Maybe we should just make up a word. :) >>> >>> I know some people expect --noop to be implied by --test, and I have >>> some sympathy for that position, but before we can get there, we need >>> to have a name for the existing functionality that I don't want to do >>> away with. >>> >> Maybe --test should only set options if we havent specified otherwise >> (maybe it does so already). We could then say --test --no-noop to match >> current behaviour. >> >> -Stefan > > > I think this is a really bad idea because I really think Puppet has broken a > lot of things recently and people use --test in automatic scripts. > > This is really almost always an abuse and "--no-daemonize --onetime > --verbose" would probably work better, but I really don't think breaking even > more things is the right choice right now.
Changing behavior like this would be done only in a major version release, and we'd provide deprecation warnings for a whole major version before actually changing it. This has been standard practice in the project so far. > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "Puppet Users" group. > To post to this group, send email to puppet-users@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. > > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Puppet Users" group. To post to this group, send email to puppet-users@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.
