HCL support: get list of current limitations

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HCL support: get list of current limitations #9175

Closed nqb closed 4 years ago

nqb commented 4 years ago

Currently, HCL support is in beta. Some features are supported, some not. From my pont of view, it's hard to know exactly which one.

It would be interesting to have a way to know easily current limitations of HCL support.

I suggest:

a GitHub issue that can be referenced easily.
a temporary note in Packer's doc with a reference to that issue (in order to avoid updating documentation each time a new item is done)

azr commented 4 years ago

Hey @nqb wonderful idea, like an index issue, I'm creating that now.

azr commented 4 years ago

@nqb, I opened https://github.com/hashicorp/packer/issues/9176 for this; please tell me if something's missing there

nqb commented 4 years ago

Hello @azr, sounds good.

What do you think about my second proposal:

* a temporary note in Packer's doc with a reference to that issue (in order to avoid updating documentation each time a new item is done)

It seems important because new Packer's users will not go on GitHub first.

nqb commented 4 years ago

Otherwise, I read this Announcing HashiCorp Packer 1.5 With HCL2 Support blog post and I'm not sure variable interpolation is completely done.

azr commented 4 years ago

Okay I think this is much better now thanks @nqb ! 🙂

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