Rob Nelson

This is good to review as Ruby 1.8.7 will be out of the matrix soon enough. @binford2k @rodjek

I think those would both be possible to do, though the puppet gem dependency could be tricky to navigate.

@david22swan Not me, personally, I unfortunately do not have the time to participate in this project nearly as much these days. I believe there may have been some improvements that...

I started creating an example API tool at https://github.com/rnelson0/puppet-parser_api_example. It currently parses and validates code; next is enumerating the tokens in the lexer.

See #586 for code validation and #584 for better lexing.

My thoughts: - 1.8.7 is dead dead dead - 2+ years past EOL and Puppet itself no longer tests Puppet or modules against 1.8.7. Unfortunately, EL6 still uses 1.8.7. But...

I guess I should have put a caveat on that, as I was assuming it may not pass 2.3 without some work (not sure why I thought that, but I...

@kylog Anecdata: when we ran EL6 on our linux build server (windows desktops after all), we used the PE3.7 vendored ruby and gem to install and use puppet-lint and other...

Kylo merged 505 which means we are now testing against 1.8.7, 1.9.3, 2.0.0, 2.1.9, 2.2.4, 2.3.1. The question is then if we want to mark 1.8.7 or 1.8.7+1.9.3 as deprecated?...

@cvquesty I feel you, we have some EL6, too. It is less the upgrade to EL7 and more to systemd that has delayed things (though leaps in php and such...