Re: problem with copy stanza not firing

[Luke A. Kanies]

On Mon, 24 Nov 2003, John S J Anderson wrote:

> Daniel Pittman <daniel@rimspace.net> writes:
>
> > Try adding the class to 'AddInstallable' in your control section. That
> > resolved a similar odd problem for me.
>
>   Thanks for the pointer, Daniel. When I reviewed the documentation
>   for that option, I found this bit of information:
>
> Cfengine is not always able to see these classes until it meets them
> and tries to save space by only loading actions for classes which is
> believes will become defined at some point in the program. This can
> lead to some actions being missed if the action is parsed before the
> place where the class gets switched on, since cfengine is a one-pass
> interpreter.

I just read someone's .sig which included the quote from Knuth about
premature optimization, and I think this might qualify. This probably
causes far more problems than it saves space.

Luke

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