Hey Ansiblers,
I’ve been using Ansible for the last couple of months. It’s great! I’m already up to speed with contributions/pull requests and I there has been times when I’ve had to read the source code to make sure I understand what an Ansible module has been doing.
That said, I’d say I’m through the beginner’s stage as of now and I thought I should report on a big annoyance that hits me every time I visit the Ansible source code; There is one ‘lib’ folder and another ‘library’. (Yes, ‘lib’ is an abbreviation for ‘library’ for those who don’t know it.) Every time I revisit the source code and I don’t know which one I should go into. I can’t be the only mixing them up.
I know I am dropping a bomb here but I suggest that at least one of them should be renamed. However, both of them has their own annoyances, so if you’d ask (naive) me I’d probably
- move ‘/lib/ansible’ to ‘/ansible’ since ‘/lib’ doesn’t contain anything else than…ansible; and
- rename ‘/library’ to ‘/modules’ because that’s what the folder actually contains. This change would would probably also lead to searching for ‘./modules’ relative to playbooks, possibly phasing out ./library.
Comments on this? Has it been discussed before? Would you be willing to accept pull requests for anything of this kind?
Cheers from Sweden,
Jens
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