Hi all,

Perhaps I'm approaching this the wrong way; I would appreciate some 
feedback.

We have various playbooks that have been developed over a period of time. 
Due to the (sometimes) lack of backwards compatibility of ansible, some 
playbooks might require a specific version. I don't want to run this on 
different ansible runtime/orchestration servers; I'd like to be able to 
handle this on the one server.

In previous versions (prior to the core/extras submodule being split out), 
we could typically download some tar.gz releases and unzip/extract them 
into different directories. Then prior to running a playbook we could 
source hacking/env-setup for the specific version that we needed and could 
run the playbook.

For example:
source ansible-1.7.2/hacking/env-setup
# run my ansible-playbook that requires version 1.7.2

source ansible-1.6.3/hacking/env-setup
#run my ansible-playbook that requires version 1.6.3

The above does not work since the core and extras modules became git 
submodules as outlined below.

Now I have a couple of options:

1. Take a release (such 
as http://releases.ansible.com/ansible/ansible-2.0.0.2.tar.gz). This 
doesn't have the hacking directory so how do I configure my environment? I 
don't want to run setup since doing this for different versions will 
override each other, and running jobs in parallel would certainly get 
issues if I did this. Hence I don't have an easy mechanism of catering for 
different versions.

2. Take a source tar.gz (such 
as https://github.com/ansible/ansible/archive/v2.0.0.2-1.tar.gz). Whilst 
this gives me the hacking directory the lib/ansible/modules/core and 
lib/ansible/modules/extras (which correspond to the git submodules) are 
empty, so I would need to obtain those as well. How do I get those?

What I think would solve my issue is a tarball that includes all the source 
(including the git submodules) as well as the hacking directory.

Or am I going about this the wrong way?

Thanks for any help, advice or pointers.

Phil

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