Part of the reasons behind my questions are that there's a module I really like, and seem to use often enough, that's been abandoned by its creator for a few years now

what does the module do? Is it public?

ah a third party one

I have PRs in on GH for it but the first one I filed was over two years ago now and hasn't been touched.  It's also mostly using older idioms and I think still on the v3 Ruby API?  And I kinda want to grab it and bring it up to date and at least hand it off to someone who'll occasionally check a PR queue

(and I don't say that to judge - I mean if I weren't regularly working with Puppet for gainful employment, I don't know how responsive I'd be, either)

bastelfreak it's

inkblot-ipcalc

See the

inkblot-ipcalc

module at https://forge.puppet.com/inkblot/ipcalc?src=slack&channel=voxpupuli

I think it was GPL, I forget

...oh, or it was Apache.  Thanks, VoxBot.

didn't we port a lot of that to extlib

ah from Yelp/netstdlib we ported some stuff

See the

yelp-netstdlib

module at https://forge.puppet.com/yelp/netstdlib?src=slack&channel=voxpupuli

and there's also https://github.com/voxpupuli/puppet-extlib/pull/222

so maybe you could just provide a PR to extlib if something is missing for you

Possibly - this was the thing I JUST did: https://github.com/inkblot/puppet-ipcalc/pull/15

That's been a shockingly huge portion of my night and I'm about to go collapse into bed - it's nearly 2:30am here and I'm just good at making bad decisions today, apparently

I needed to sort an array of IP addresses into native binary order because that's how

nmcli

returns them when asked, and I needed to have any reasonable expectation at all that things would match without manually pre-sorting all the addresses and ranges involved

So I wrote ip_compare() and then went "y'know, while I'm in here..." and now it's 2:30 and wheeeeee faceplant

:D

classic

been there …

But yeah if those would be helpful in extlib, I can smash something together for extlib

well at extlib they PR would get a review and extlib in general is maintained

I'm not sure we use extlib but I remember seeing it before and thinking it looked darn handy

and it already contains related network functios

it's the cool sister of stdlib really

The nmcli stuff I was writing was also one of those things where I was like "surely someone's got a module for this," and that turned out to be a great deal less sure than expected

everything about nmcli is awful :(

so...the "okay how does advanced module and will I foot-gun myself if I try thing" questions may have more than one anticipated use