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Is there any sane reason why in all standard modules the keyword “src” has 3 letters but “dest” has 4 letters instead of “dst”, which is pretty standard everywh
by allarm 4y ago
Is there any sane reason why in all standard modules the keyword “src” has 3 letters but “dest” has 4 letters instead of “dst”, which is pretty standard everywhere? Drives me crazy every time.
- zufallsheld 4y agoIf it drives you crazy, why not make a pr to add an alias for dst? For the copy module this line (and the docs) need to be changed: https://github.com/ansible/ansible/blob/cb448097e4ef581a474903947d4ec0bd358467d8/lib/ansible/modules/file.py#L909 https://github.com/ansible/ansible/blob/cb448097e4ef581a4749...
- allarm 4y agoAliases are not backward compatible, it’s not an elegant solution. It should have been properly named from the start.