[chef-dev] Re: cookbook metadata - add chef version compatibility info

[Mike < >]

+1 for more descriptive metadata in cookbooks.

Maybe "chef_version", or hell, a subset of "supports" (which is unused...)

-M

On Tue, Apr 16, 2013 at 11:02 AM, Avishai Ish-Shalom
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 wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> I would like to propose an addition to cookbook metadata - a chef version
> compatibility deceleration which declares which Chef version a cookbook can
> be used with.
> This will aid users to understand if a cookbook might break on chef upgrades
> - i think the chef 11 migration has demonstrated the need of such metadata.
>
> some like:
> compatible ">= 11.0.0"
>
> what say you?