On Mon, Jun 25, 2012 at 6:19 AM, jcbollinger <john.bollin...@stjude.org> wrote: > > > On Saturday, June 23, 2012 7:38:20 PM UTC-5, Kelsey Hightower wrote: >> >> There is a pending pull request that adds the ability for Puppet to load >> Faces, parser functions, and report processors installed via Rubygems. >> >> https://github.com/puppetlabs/puppet/pull/873 >> >> This means in addition to extending Puppet via pluginsync you would be >> able to simply do something like this: >> >> gem install puppetlabs-cloud-provisioner >> >> That would bring in all the gem dependancies and be ready for use without >> restarting Puppet. For more examples take a look at this >> ticket: http://projects.puppetlabs.com/issues/7788 >> >> I would really love to get some feedback around this, and if you like it, >> add your vote to the ticket. > > > > I will never use it, at least for any system that has a decent native > package manager. As I have written before, it is a bad idea to give > multiple agents (e.g. gem and yum) overlapping management responsibilities. > If it doesn't interfere with anything else, though, nor take substantial > effort to maintain then I won't vote against it.
I'm certainly in this camp as well. You can bet that if extensions got popular, we would take some effort to package them (beyond gems) for use within Puppet. It's pretty simple to migrate from gems to rpm/deb at least. > > > John > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "Puppet Users" group. > To view this discussion on the web visit > https://groups.google.com/d/msg/puppet-users/-/7O4phpnzUV0J. > > 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.
