A beginner's adventure in Charm authoring

[David Cheney]

On Fri, Sep 5, 2014 at 5:04 AM, Nate Finch <nate.finch at canonical.com> wrote:
> given that we currently use the path, you can't have one charm for multiple
> series anyway.

For deploying local: charms, symlinks work fine here.

> This would at least be better than what we have right now,
> and would be backwards compatible (older jujus would just require the old
> style local deploy and would ignore the extra series specification in the
> metadata).
>
>
> On Thu, Sep 4, 2014 at 2:58 PM, Curtis Hovey-Canonical
> <curtis at canonical.com> wrote:
>>
>> On Thu, Sep 4, 2014 at 3:26 AM, John Meinel <john at arbash-meinel.com>
>> wrote:
>> ...
>> > At the very least we need to know what OS Series the charm is targeting.
>> > Which is currently only inferred from the path. I don't particularly
>> > like
>> > it, and I think the code that searches your whole repository and then
>> > picks
>> > the "best" one is bad, as it confuses people far more often than it is
>> > helpful.
>> > (If you have $REPO, and have $REPO/precise/charm and
>> > $REPO/precise/charm-backup but the 'revision' number in charm-backup is
>> > higher for whatever reason, juju deploy --repository=$REPO charm will
>> > actually deploy charm-backup)
>>
>> I thought we agreed in Burlington that the charm can declare the
>> series in the metadata.yaml
>>     series: trusty
>>
>> A list of series was rejected I recall. There was a plan to change
>> charm store ingestion to read the metadata.yaml. Maybe this fell apart
>> because without support for a list of series/oses, you cannot have one
>> charm supporting more than one series.
>>
>> --
>> Curtis Hovey
>> Canonical Cloud Development and Operations
>> http://launchpad.net/~sinzui
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