Puppet users - May 2014 - On code organization and the deprecation of include

Hello

I have a fairly large repository (~100 modules, ~50 classes, ~200 nodes). 
It is currently organized like this:

modules/
    apache2/
      manifests/
      files/
      templates/
    iptables/
      manifests/
      files/
      templates/
    postfix/
      manifests/
      files/
      templates/
    ...
manifests/
    classes/
        webserver.pp
        webserver/
            apache2.pp
            iptables.pp
        mta/
            postfix.pp
            iptables.pp
        ...
    nodes/
        webserver.pp
        webserver/
            web1.pp
            web2.pp
            ...
        mta.pp
        mta/
            mta1.pp
            mta2.pp
            ...

Subclasses in the modules directory are found via the autoloader, and as 
long as I follow the file naming conventions, that works fine. For classes 
and nodes, I have to use import. For example, in classes/webserver.pp I 
have "import webserver/*.pp" so that I can access classes 
webserver::apache2, webserver::iptables and so on. The same is done for 
nodes. I usually have a "generic node" where I set variables that are 
common for that class of nodes, and then the nodes themselves which inherit 
the generic node and set their own variables. To make that work, I use 
import in the same way as described above.

I understand that with the deprecation of "include", this will not
work
anymore. I can work around this for my classes by adding a new directory to 
the modulepath and then converting the directory structure to the 
manifests/files/templates structure with an init.pp file. However, what can 
I do about the nodes? The new feature of setting the manifest to a 
directory does not support subdirectories. Will I be forced to have all my 
nodes in the same directory and then rely on file names for organization? 
This is far from optimal in my opinion. What other alternatives do I have? 
If at all possible, I'd like to avoid using ENCs and keep using puppet 
files for node definitions.

Thanks in advance,
Andre

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