In the course of the PuppetCamp Europe, I met with many people I only knew from IRC and email and it was a great time with interesting and inspiring discussions.
Today I want to write about the work I’m currently commisioned for by puppetlabs, porting puppet to Microsoft Windows.
Current Status
After disabling some minor pieces (color, conf file watching) and fixing a few bugs (see the tree on github) and a little bit hacking various parts to pass through paths with a drive letter, I was able to create the first file on windows with puppet. On the downside a few technical problems with the code surfaced, the most daunting were approximately 600 spec failures (out of 8.500 examples).
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