[[chef-dev]] Re: [[chef-dev]] Rakefile deprecation

[Alex Soto < >]

Nope.  Sounds like deprecation is a good idea instead of maintaining two 
features.

On May 10, 2011, at 10:56 AM, Bryan McLellan wrote:

> We'd like to deprecate the Rakefile because much of what it does is
> superseded by knife and there is no known need to maintain both
> codebases.
> 
> There are a bunch of related tickets.
> 
> CHEF-1103 - failure to upload cookbook doesn't bubble up to the CLI
> tool uploading the cookbook
> CHEF-1193 - rake tasks do not carry through exit code from knife (and 
> others?)
> CHEF-1372 - rake metadata task no longer adds recipes
> CHEF-1647 - rake install should not only git pull, but also git submodule 
> update
> CHEF-1748 - rake roles ignores json files
> CHEF-1891 - When using rake new_cookbook, deprecation message should
> show correct syntax of creating cookbook via knife tool
> CHEF-1911 - As a chef user I want to load all my roles from files with
> one command
> CHEF-1912 - As a chef user I want to load all my data bags and items
> from files with one command
> 
> Does anyone have a use case where they use rake but not knife?
> 
> Bryan