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Re: Ansible 1.9.0 Released

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I've learned with Ansible never to be quick to update. There's always something that will break. I've been on 1.7.2 for a while, and will probably think about updating later this year.

Strange, I have the exact opposite experience. I am running devel and update every half month or so and it usually just works.

Re: Ansible 1.9.0 Released

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Those distributions have great dependency management, they will install the python 2 dependency when installing ansible

This does not help when you want to manage Arch or Ubuntu machines, since you're not installing ansible there, you're just letting ansible connect with ssh and execute Python2 scripts. So, before being able to run your playbooks to do your provisioning/deployment, now you have to handle credentials outside of ansible, connect to the remote machine manually and install an old version of Python. It's only a minor annoy…

You can always use ansible ad-hoc tasks for this. There is the `raw` module which doesn't use python and just executes code.
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