[[chef-dev]] Re: [[chef-dev]] ohai[:virtualization][:emulator] key name

[Bryan McLellan < >]

On Wed, Apr 6, 2011 at 12:40 PM, Seth Chisamore 
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 wrote:
> +1 for standardizing this. If we are worried about not breakign anyone you 
> could also just ensure the value is available under both the 'emulator' and 
> 'system' keys. This could be done fairly easily in the top level 
> virtualization plugin:
> https://github.com/opscode/ohai/blob/master/lib/ohai/plugins/virtualization.rb

Yeah, but I think you'd want to use an API version mechanism such as
Tollef suggests so you can still deprecate the keys, otherwise you end
up with everyone paying to cost of storing the data twice.

Thus far we've stated that there may be breaking changes on major
releases, so I think it is a safe time to do this. Mostly I was
wondering if anyone felt strongly for or against, otherwise I just
think it's a reasonable thing to do.

Bryan