[chef-dev] Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: CHEF-3762: LWRP DSL for subclassing needed?

[Noah Kantrowitz < >]

On Jan 28, 2013, at 3:45 PM, Jay Feldblum wrote:

> One option for the helpers is to move the helpers into a mixin which is 
> included by in the lightweight base classes, and which may be included 
> explicitly in any non-lightweight resource or provider class.
> 

This is exactly the approach the application cookbook has used, but it gets 
very verbose and ungainly, and leads to related code being all over the 
place. It also doesn't address built-in classes in Chef unless those are 
moved out into modules as well.

--Noah