[chef-dev] Re: Re: Dialect support and loading enhancements

[Lamont Granquist < >]

On 9/19/13 3:54 PM, Adam Jacob wrote:
> 1) Do other people actually think the directory structure of a 
> cookbook is the biggest barrier to learning? This confuses the crap 
> out of me - but I'm the one that inflicted the directory structure on 
> you, so perhaps I'm an awful judge.
I made another proposal to deprecate file specificity and deprecate the 
templates directory as part of unifying/simplifying the file 
providers...  Its complexity that doesn't often get used and is probably 
better moved into the recipe.   I've gotten tired of doing "mkdir 
templates/default" and "cd templates/default" all the time when i never 
use file specificity...  The sharks may be circling this one...