On Fri, May 26, 2023 at 8:07 AM Nico Kadel-Garcia <[email protected]> wrote:
>
> On Tue, May 23, 2023 at 8:15 AM Anwesha Das <[email protected]> wrote:
> >
> > Hello everyone,
> >
> > We're happy to announce the release of the Ansible 7.6.0 package!
> >
> > Ansible 7.6.0 includes ansible-core 2.14.6 as well as a curated set of
> > Ansible collections that provide a vast number of modules and plugins.
>
> Please, stop saying this. This line of the documentation is simply not
> true. "ansible-core" is s distinct code base, from a different repo,
> published as a different tarball. The ansible tarball is *only* a
> curated set of ansible collections. It's huge, and awkward to manage,
> and it does not contain the actually critical ansible-core3 that all
> ansible software users require.

Argh. I typed "ansible-core3" rather than "ansible-core". Forgive me,
the cat wanted his breakfast. He's fed now!

> The ansible tarball is *locked* to specific releases of ansible-core
> by the "ansible.egg-info/requires.txt" file, which currently lists:
>
>       ansible-core~=2.14.6
>
> Having a listed dependency is far from "including" a distinct code
> base. Please use the correct verb. To describe it better, may I
> suggest:
>
>     > Ansible 7.6.0  requires and if not found, attempts to
> automatically install ansible-core 2.14.6 The Ansible package provides
> a large, curated set of Ansible collection published modules and
> plugins.

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