[chef-dev] Re: Best practice for cross platform cookbook dependencies?

[Mike < >]

The dependency manifests as files located on the filesystem.
I don't think there's any other problems, are there?

On Mon, Feb 11, 2013 at 1:53 PM, Peter Loron 
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 wrote:
> I'm working on extending the existing nodejs cookbook to support installs 
> on Windows. This brings up a bit of a conundrum…if I do this, I'm going to 
> take a dependency hit on the "windows" cookbook. This will cause 
> non-windows shops to now have another cookbook they don't need. On the flip 
> side, windows-only shops will have the useless to them "apt" cookbook.
>
> Is there a solution that the community prefers? I could roll this out as a 
> separate cookbook, but I would prefer to keep it all in one. Just eat the 
> extra dependency overhead?
>
> Thanks.
>
> -Pete