Re: problem with copy stanza not firing

[Daniel Pittman]

On Thu, 4 Dec 2003, Luke A. Kanies wrote:
> 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.

I agree, but Mark does not. We had this argument when /I/ found the
ill-effects of it some while back. :)

            Daniel

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