[Pkg-puppet-devel] [SCM] Puppet packaging for Debian branch, experimental, updated. debian/2.6.8-1-844-g7ec39d5

[Daniel Pittman]

The following commit has been merged in the experimental branch:
commit 33b5580ef6b6c851beb6852e56659afea8bb0b04
Author: Daniel Pittman <daniel at puppetlabs.com>
Date:   Tue Apr 19 18:22:03 2011 -0700

    maint: move method comments outside the comment.
    
    The comment discussing the purpose of the wrapper and related details rightly
    belongs outside the method; move it there so it doesn't perturb the functional
    changes that follow.
    
    Reviewed-By: Max Martin <max at puppetlabs.com>

diff --git a/lib/puppet/interface/action.rb b/lib/puppet/interface/action.rb
index 23366b4..e644d89 100644
--- a/lib/puppet/interface/action.rb
+++ b/lib/puppet/interface/action.rb
@@ -129,27 +129,26 @@ class Puppet::Interface::Action
   #   @face.send(name, *args, &block)
   # end
 
+
+  # We need to build an instance method as a wrapper, using normal code, to be
+  # able to expose argument defaulting between the caller and definer in the
+  # Ruby API.  An extra method is, sadly, required for Ruby 1.8 to work since
+  # it doesn't expose bind on a block.
+  #
+  # Hopefully we can improve this when we finally shuffle off the last of Ruby
+  # 1.8 support, but that looks to be a few "enterprise" release eras away, so
+  # we are pretty stuck with this for now.
+  #
+  # Patches to make this work more nicely with Ruby 1.9 using runtime version
+  # checking and all are welcome, provided that they don't change anything
+  # outside this little ol' bit of code and all.
+  #
+  # Incidentally, we though about vendoring evil-ruby and actually adjusting
+  # the internal C structure implementation details under the hood to make
+  # this stuff work, because it would have been cleaner.  Which gives you an
+  # idea how motivated we were to make this cleaner.  Sorry.
+  # --daniel 2011-03-31
   def when_invoked=(block)
-    # We need to build an instance method as a wrapper, using normal code, to
-    # be able to expose argument defaulting between the caller and definer in
-    # the Ruby API.  An extra method is, sadly, required for Ruby 1.8 to work.
-    #
-    # In future this also gives us a place to hook in additional behaviour
-    # such as calling out to the action instance to validate and coerce
-    # parameters, which avoids any exciting context switching and all.
-    #
-    # Hopefully we can improve this when we finally shuffle off the last of
-    # Ruby 1.8 support, but that looks to be a few "enterprise" release eras
-    # away, so we are pretty stuck with this for now.
-    #
-    # Patches to make this work more nicely with Ruby 1.9 using runtime
-    # version checking and all are welcome, but they can't actually help if
-    # the results are not totally hidden away in here.
-    #
-    # Incidentally, we though about vendoring evil-ruby and actually adjusting
-    # the internal C structure implementation details under the hood to make
-    # this stuff work, because it would have been cleaner.  Which gives you an
-    # idea how motivated we were to make this cleaner.  Sorry. --daniel 2011-03-31
 
     internal_name = "#{@name} implementation, required on Ruby 1.8".to_sym
     file    = __FILE__ + "+eval"

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Puppet packaging for Debian