I agree with Michael here... it seems to make more sense.
It could also be that we're both a bit 'strange' ;-)

Anyway, if we want to change it, 3.0 is the time to do it.

Unfortunately i have nothing to say here as i myself am too busy lately
with non Cobbler stuff
Hopefully that will change soonish

On Fri, Oct 24, 2014 at 3:54 PM, Michael Tiernan <[email protected]> wrote:

> On 10/24/14 9:31 AM, Alan Evangelista wrote:
> > On 09/17/2014 10:25 AM, Michael Tiernan wrote:
> >> As just an aside, may I express displeasure with the fact that the
> >> templating currently "reads" as "Source" = "Target" instead of the more
> >> logical "Target" = "Source"
> >>
> >> Currently the syntax for the templates reads as if you were saying
> >> 3+5=x instead of x=3+5
> >
> > I don't know what you mean.
>
> Sorry. I didn't mean the contents of the templates, I mean the template
> definitions as given to Cobbler in the "Management" screen.
>
> Here's a template definition for one of my cobbler profiles:
>   /var/lib/cobbler/templates/ntp_conf.tmpl=/etc/ntp.conf
>
> It *reads* logically as:
>   Create the file "{source file on cobbler server}"
>   from the file "/etc/ntp.conf"
>
> Whereas one would *expect* it to read:
>   /etc/ntp.conf=/var/lib/cobbler/templates/ntp_conf.tmpl
>
> i.e:  ${Target} = ${Source}
>
> While writing this, it occurs to me that should we have the option, it
> would be "logical" the way it is written if it said:
>    ${Source} => ${Target}
>
> The difference being the visible "direction of movement" shown by the
> arrowhead. Either "->" or "=>" would produce the same thing.
>
> Again, just an opinion.
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