Hi,
I am happy to announce that Geppetto 2.1 has been released and is
available as both packaged downloads and as an update from within Geppetto.
Download here: https://github.com/cloudsmith/geppetto/downloads
* 20Mb smaller footprint! and more functionality.
* Geppetto helps with the transition from dynamically scoped variables
(supported by puppet <= 2.7), to the "local, inherited, and
global"-only scopes supported by 2.8. Geppetto does this by
validating variable references for target >= puppet 2.7, and offering
suggestions for fixes.
- Geppetto supports best practice, i.e., to make all references
to global variables use the ''::'' namespace
(i.e., use $::operatingsystem, in favor of $operatingsystem).
- Geppetto helps by flagging "unknown" variables, as well
as "unknown and unqualified". When targeting 2.7 these are
flagged as errors, and when targeting the future 2.8, they
are flagged as errors.
- Unfortunately, it is not possible for Geppetto to validate
the existence of all global variables as a majority are not known
until runtime.
- For target 2.6, Geppetto behaves as before (no warnings or errors
as it is impossible to statically verify the existence of
dynamically scoped variables).
- For target >= 2.7, Geppetto requires that all non global qualified
references are to known variables and will issue warnings (2.7),
or errors (2.8). As a consequence Geppetto 2.1 was made aware of
variables in the $settings:: namespace to avoid lots of false
warnings.
* Fixes issues, and regressions in 2.0.1 validation.
* Support for Java (Eclipse JDT) removed from packaged product.
* Based on Eclipse Indigo SR1 which means a large number of fixed
issues in base functionality, and git support.
See https://github.com/cloudsmith/geppetto/wiki/Release-Notes
for more detailed information about fixed issues.
Please see http://cloudsmith.github.com/geppetto/faq.html for
information if you run into problems updating.
Checkout
http://cloudsmith.github.com/geppetto/faq.html#2011/06/28/how-do-i-update if
you don''t know how to update.
Regards
- henrik