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Configuring My Machines with Bashtard

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Re: Configuring My Machines with Bashtard

#6
This is so awful. I hope nobody ever actually uses it seriously.

As a person who has less hate than most people about bash; there are better options.

I understand the frustration with ansible, with DSLs in general and the slow creep they all take to becoming proper languages with loops and conditionals- only with worse semantics than real languages.

But this isn’t the way.

Re: Configuring My Machines with Bashtard

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That name is problematic as it's too close to an abelist slur. You should change it to something like Bashfig, Bashful, etc. to be more inclusive.

As an actual living bastard, I endorse the name. So. There.

I think GP is referring to the politically incorrect "-tard" part of the name.

Re: Configuring My Machines with Bashtard

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post #5
post #2

That name is problematic as it's too close to an abelist slur. You should change it to something like Bashfig, Bashful, etc. to be more inclusive.

As an actual living bastard, I endorse the name. So. There.

I'm all for funny names, but giving your project a needlessly inflammatory name, to me signals that the author doesn't have an interest in working with the greater open-source community to develop it further or adopt it.

Re: Configuring My Machines with Bashtard

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post #2

That name is problematic as it's too close to an abelist slur. You should change it to something like Bashfig, Bashful, etc. to be more inclusive.

Oh, come on. It’s a lot, lot closer to bastard than retard or tard. At some point people have to own their own misperceptions.
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