| // Package earlyconfig is a specialized alternative to the top-level "configs" |
| // package that does only shallow processing of configuration and is therefore |
| // able to be much more liberal than the full config loader in what it accepts. |
| // |
| // In particular, it can accept both current and legacy HCL syntax, and it |
| // ignores top-level blocks that it doesn't recognize. These two characteristics |
| // make this package ideal for dependency-checking use-cases so that we are |
| // more likely to be able to return an error message about an explicit |
| // incompatibility than to return a less-actionable message about a construct |
| // not being supported. |
| // |
| // However, its liberal approach also means it should be used sparingly. It |
| // exists primarily for "terraform init", so that it is able to detect |
| // incompatibilities more robustly when installing dependencies. For most |
| // other use-cases, use the "configs" and "configs/configload" packages. |
| // |
| // Package earlyconfig is a wrapper around the terraform-config-inspect |
| // codebase, adding to it just some helper functionality for Terraform's own |
| // use-cases. |
| package earlyconfig |
