Makara 2 and Dust @provide helper

[connesc]

I recently upgraded a Kraken project to Makara 2, and I discovered that the combination of mode="paired" and @provide does not work anymore.

I took me a while to figure out that @provide (from dustmotes-provide) is not able to consume the output of @message. I think that this breaking change should be mentioned somewhere (at least in this page).

If anyone is interested, I solved the problem by writing my own @provide helper: dust-provide-helper. It is not perfect, but it can be used as a drop-in replacement for dustmotes-provide with Makara 2.

[grawk]

Sorry for the delay. I will be looking into this.

[grawk]

Hi @connesc I'm investigating this now. I see that your new helper code does work in paired mode while the original @provide helper code does not. I've forked the @provide helper (and other dustmotes helpers) into the krakenjs org (as https://github.com/krakenjs/festucam) in order that we can keep them up to date. The original author has retired and I think this is the best way to support them going forward. Would you mind opening a PR against festucam with your changes? If you're not actively working on dust anymore, I'm happy to open the PR myself and add you as a "contributor" in package.json. Let me know.

[connesc]

Hi @grawk, and thanks for this follow up.
Your PR looks good to me, well done!