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Flightplan – a Node.js library for streamlining deployments and sysadmin tasks

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Re: Flightplan – a Node.js library for streamlining deployments and sysadmin tasks

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awesome job on the dsl :-D

I can't guess if you are trying to be sarcastic. But I would be. The DSL is over-the-top.

Author here. I'm planning to add "with a dead serious DSL" to the introduction text.

Re: Flightplan – a Node.js library for streamlining deployments and sysadmin tasks

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post #5

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I can't guess if you are trying to be sarcastic. But I would be. The DSL is over-the-top.

Author here. I'm planning to add "with a dead serious DSL" to the introduction text.

That would do it for me :)

edit: I actually think this is an interesting topic. I like the way one usually tries to find a theme that fits the actions the program takes. But it could just as well have been called 'deploy' with 'local', 'remote' and 'setup'. Most administrators would instantly know what is going to happen without having a dictionary lying around.

If you really want to make it dead serious rename 'host' to 'terminal' and 'user' to 'passenger'. And stuff like that.

Re: Flightplan – a Node.js library for streamlining deployments and sysadmin tasks

#7

awesome job on the dsl :-D

I can't guess if you are trying to be sarcastic. But I would be. The DSL is over-the-top.

Yes. The DSL is almost comical.

Your users are likely well versed in system administration, these analogies don't make anything easier to understand; rather, it serves to distract attention from the core functionality.

Re: Flightplan – a Node.js library for streamlining deployments and sysadmin tasks

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post #5

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I can't guess if you are trying to be sarcastic. But I would be. The DSL is over-the-top.

Author here. I'm planning to add "with a dead serious DSL" to the introduction text.

I don't see a "DSL" here. Do you mean "interface"?