Without this patch the information displayed on rubygems.org does not
clearly convey the intent of the Gem format of stdlib from the official
puppet module format of stdlib. This is a problem because end users
might get confused and start installing stdlib from rubygems.org
This patch addresses the problem by making it clear that the gem version
of stdlib is not intended for end users, but rather is specifically
intended to make it easier for other module authors to depend on stdlib
and have that dependency automatically resolved using a Gemfile.
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Without this patch it is inconvenient to use the functions included in
stdlib in a development setting. The Puppet modulepath must be
explicitly set for the functions to be automatically loaded.
This patch addresses the problem by adding a gem specification and
dependency Gemfile. This makes it possible to directly use stdlib and
all of the components it depends upon, like so:
$ bundle install --path .bundle/gems/
$ bundle exec puppet apply -e 'notice count([1, 2, 3])'
The first command will install all of the dependencies, including Puppet
and Facter, into the local project directory. The second command will
make stdlib avaialable as a Gem, which will be picked up by Puppet since
(#7788) was merged into Puppet in the 3.0 release.
