[chef-dev] Re: Re: Re: Dialect support and loading enhancements

[Noah Kantrowitz < >]

On Oct 2, 2013, at 2:05 PM, Daniel DeLeo 
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 wrote:

> Chatted with the other folks at Opscode, and here's what we want to do
>  (you can read this as a gist if the formatting is messed up: 
> https://gist.github.com/danielsdeleo/18c4e4e2bba6eff922d4 ;):
> 
> # Summary:
> 
> * Yes to "tiny" cookbook layouts
> * Yes to removing implicit filespecificity
> * Yes to user-defined, explicit filespecificity
> * Yes to modular, modifiable code that can support dialects
> * No to including any dialects in core or supporting them beyond
>   best-effort Open Source Community courtesy.

Which dialects do you mean in particular? Ruby support itself is now setup as 
a dialect, so that one needs to be there. Beyond that I'm working on 
expanding the dialect system to encompass the decoder dispatch for stuff like 
metadata.{rb,json}, role files, and env files all of which will mean a 
built-in JSON dialect in addition to the Ruby one. Then there is the JSON and 
Yaml dialects I setup for attribute files, just to be clear I think you are 
suggesting those should be relocated to external cookbooks?

--Noah

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