Fixing #448 - relationships have their own syntax

You can now specify relationships directly in the language:

  File[/foo] -> Service[bar]

Specifies a normal dependency while:

  File[/foo] ~> Service[bar]

Specifies a subscription.

You can also do relationship chaining, specifying multiple
relationships on a single line:

  File[/foo] -> Package[baz] -> Service[bar]

Note that while it's confusing, you don't have to have all
of the arrows be the same direction:

  File[/foo] -> Service[bar] <~ Package[baz]

This can provide some succinctness at the cost of readability.

You can also specify full resources, rather than just
resource refs:

    file { "/foo": ensure => present } -> package { bar: ensure => installed }

But wait! There's more!  You can also specify a subscription on either side
of the relationship marker:

    yumrepo { foo: .... }
    package { bar: provider => yum, ... }
    Yumrepo <| |> -> Package <| provider == yum |>

This, finally, provides easy many to many relationships in Puppet, but it also opens
the door to massive dependency cycles.  This last feature is a very powerful stick,
and you can considerably hurt yourself with it.

Signed-off-by: Luke Kanies <luke@puppetlabs.com>

0 files changed, 0 insertions, 0 deletions