I agree with Michael here... it seems to make more sense.
It could also be that we're both a bit 'strange' ;-)

Anyway, if we want to change it, 3.0 is the time to do it.

Unfortunately i have nothing to say here as i myself am too busy lately with non Cobbler stuff
Hopefully that will change soonish

On Fri, Oct 24, 2014 at 3:54 PM, Michael Tiernan <mtiernan@mit.edu> wrote:
On 10/24/14 9:31 AM, Alan Evangelista wrote:
> On 09/17/2014 10:25 AM, Michael Tiernan wrote:
>> As just an aside, may I express displeasure with the fact that the
>> templating currently "reads" as "Source" = "Target" instead of the more
>> logical "Target" = "Source"
>>
>> Currently the syntax for the templates reads as if you were saying
>> 3+5=x instead of x=3+5
>
> I don't know what you mean.

Sorry. I didn't mean the contents of the templates, I mean the template
definitions as given to Cobbler in the "Management" screen.

Here's a template definition for one of my cobbler profiles:
  /var/lib/cobbler/templates/ntp_conf.tmpl=/etc/ntp.conf

It *reads* logically as:
  Create the file "{source file on cobbler server}"
  from the file "/etc/ntp.conf"

Whereas one would *expect* it to read:
  /etc/ntp.conf=/var/lib/cobbler/templates/ntp_conf.tmpl

i.e:  ${Target} = ${Source}

While writing this, it occurs to me that should we have the option, it
would be "logical" the way it is written if it said:
   ${Source} => ${Target}

The difference being the visible "direction of movement" shown by the
arrowhead. Either "->" or "=>" would produce the same thing.

Again, just an opinion.
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