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Martin Atkins
c5f5340b15 configs: Additional guidance in doc.go
There's quite a lot in this package, so hopefully this additional
paragraph will help readers get oriented.
2018-02-15 15:56:39 -08:00
Martin Atkins
7987a2fdb2 configs: new package for HCL2-based configuration
There's a lot of complexity in our existing "config" package that results
from our approach to handling configuration with HCL and HIL. A lot of
that functionality is no longer needed -- or must work in a significantly
different way -- for HCL2.

The new package "configs", which is named following the convention of some
Go standard library packages like "strings", is a re-imagination of some
of the functionality from the "config" package for an HCL2-only world.

The scope of this package will be slightly smaller than "config", since
it only deals with config loading and not with expression evaluation.
Another package "lang" (mentioned in the docstring here but not yet added)
will deal with the more dynamic portions of of configuration handling,
including populating an hcl.EvalContext to evaluate expressions.
2018-02-15 15:10:01 -08:00