On Tue, Apr 12, 2011 at 12:54 AM, R.I.Pienaar <r...@devco.net> wrote:
> The PDL is a *much* more desirable solution than either layered classes > or extlookup, why it has gone un-implemented I dont know and why the > current suggestion is that layered classes somehow represents an effective > alternative to the PDL I do not understand at all - since surely why > bother with the PDL at all then? > > I'll answer this one. The obvious, and correct, answer is, "because it's a lot of work to do this." For Puppetlabs to do this, they're going to have to invest a lot of time and energy, because their implementation *must* be backwards-compatible or else provide an automated tool for doing the conversion. Further, the PDL proposal hasn't actually been around all that long. Puppetlabs isn't Microsoft and doesn't have a thousand developers on hand to write stuff up. Their staff is small and no matter how talented they are, there is limited time with each day. Even a user-contributed patch set probably will take time to vet simply because of the compatibility requirements. Caveat: I don't work with or for Puppetlabs, and while I may occasionally complain about X or Y, I respect the work they are doing and their efforts to provide a quality product. -- 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.
