Facter 3.1 gem

seincin

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Oct 19, 2015, 4:02:52 PM10/19/15

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Curious why there has not been a Facter 3.X gem made available?

Any timeline on a release?

Thanks in advance.

Branan Riley

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Oct 19, 2015, 5:52:37 PM10/19/15

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On Mon, Oct 19, 2015 at 9:02 AM seincin <albrech...@gmail.com> wrote:

Curious why there has not been a Facter 3.X gem made available?

Facter 3 is written in C++ and relies on a VERY modern version of GCC, as well as new versions of a number of libraries. These are not available on most of the platforms Puppet supports. If we were to ship a gem, we would have to somehow ensure that these were on the system.

Any timeline on a release?

Due to the issues described above, we have no plans to ship a Facter 3 gem.

Branan Riley

Software Engineer, Puppet Labs

seincin

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Oct 19, 2015, 6:09:16 PM10/19/15

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Hey thank you for your response.

Is the ruby 2.4 version of facter still sufficient for the latest puppet version? Will it continue to be? Will further development go into ruby facter or only in the compiled C++ version of facter?

Thanks again.

Mickaël Canévet

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Oct 20, 2015, 11:24:52 AM10/20/15

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What will happen when puppet (5?) will require facter 3+?

Will puppet still be available on rubygems.org or only within AIO packages?

This would be very annoying for puppet module development...

Kylo Ginsberg

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Oct 22, 2015, 7:08:30 PM10/22/15

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There is one small improvement coming in this area, namely to register puppet/facter/hiera as gems in the puppet-agent package. See https://tickets.puppetlabs.com/browse/PA-25. This should make module development against puppet-agent packages a little bit easier.

Longer term though, we'd like to develop an SDK for puppet module development to make module development against puppet-agent packages much easier, ideally allowing some facility for rapidly switching between puppet-agent release versions.

And in the meantime, we certainly wouldn't change puppet to *require* facter 3+.

Kylo

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