Was there ever any further traction on the assemble module taking a list of 
files using "with_items"? To documentation still states it uses a directory.

Thanks
Zach

On Tuesday, July 9, 2013 at 6:10:53 PM UTC-7, Michael DeHaan wrote:
>
> I'm open to having it work differently if it were passed a comma delimited 
> list of files.
>
> A small change will be need to be made to runner so with_items can feed it 
> "items" and it will listify, if that makes sense, as "with_items" is a 
> clearer way to pass it along.
>
> This is how the yum and apt module install multiple packages in a single 
> transaction.
>
> Let me know if I need to explain further, search for yum in the 
> runner/__init__.py code and you will see what I mean about how this works 
> for those!
>
>
>
>
> On Tue, Jul 9, 2013 at 3:49 AM, Tin Tvrtković <[email protected] 
> <javascript:>> wrote:
>
>> I'd like to offer users a library of snippets, in a special directory. 
>> They could then cherry pick from those snippets somehow and the snippets 
>> would get assembled into one file.
>>
>> Initially I thought I would do the assembling on the controlling machine, 
>> then transfer the result. Now it occurs to me I can just take a list of 
>> snippets, ship them off to the server (using with_items) and assemble them 
>> there.
>>
>> But even disregarding my current problem, is this idea something that 
>> looks interesting to you? I'd be willing to put some work into it if it's 
>> feasible.
>>
>>
>> On Tuesday, July 9, 2013 2:35:39 AM UTC+2, Michael DeHaan wrote:
>>
>>> Is the issue that the directory contains some files you do not wish to 
>>> assemble?
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> On Mon, Jul 8, 2013 at 7:58 PM, Tin Tvrtković <[email protected]> 
>>> wrote:
>>>
>>>> Hello,
>>>>
>>>> currently the assemble module takes a source directory as a parameter. 
>>>> How about adding an option of passing a list of file names to it in 
>>>> addition?
>>>>
>>>> name: Assemble my .vimrc
>>>> assemble: dest=~/.vimrc files={{ file_list }}
>>>>
>>>> where file_list would be an array var, or maybe tie it in with a 
>>>> with_items? Would this even be possible and/or desirable? Maybe the source 
>>>> directory param could even be reduced to a with_fileglob.
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