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Ansible vs Pearl

Filippo Squillace edited this page Nov 21, 2020 · 2 revisions

This blog explains well how to use Ansible to configure Vim.

These are some of the many points in favor for using Pearl on this specific case (dotfile management):

  • No easy way to include interactivity during installation
  • YAML will become very tedious to maintain for more complex configurations
  • No simple ways to use loops or if statements
  • The same configuration could be done in Pearl with way less lines
  • Installation requires backup of any previous vim config
    • Pearl allows to make append dotfiles from already existing ones thanks to the hooks mechanisms
  • On the blog example the playbook must run in Fedora
    • Pearl allow to make OS agnostic configurations that works on Linux and OSX
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