Stage condition

[Yakimych]

I am currently testing Finelines out with one of my small-ish Azure Pipelines setups, and am likely to come up with a list of questions along the way. The first one is about condition that seems to be missing on stage, but does exist on Task: https://github.com/psfinaki/Finelines/blob/main/src/Finelines/Tasks/Task.fs#L6. Do we just add a "Condition" string to the Stage too, or would it not work the same way here?

A more general question about the "condition" is whether the future plans are to create a DSL for it, or to keep it as a string. I've noticed that you have mentioned this in the Motivation section:

All the attempts to build programming experience (like variables or conditions) on top of it are obstructions and only cause pain.

However, those pains are not addressed if we use a string for condition anyway.

[psfinaki]

Hi @Yakimych 👋

and am likely to come up with a list of questions

Please do!

Do we just add a "Condition" string to the Stage too, or would it not work the same way here?

Will not work just yet, but I've just created a PR for that, take a look :)

A more general question about the "condition" is whether the future plans are to create a DSL for it, or to keep it as a string.

It would be absolutely awesome to have a DSL for that and will completely follow the spirit of the project. The thing is that creating a DSL is a bit harder than creating things like discriminated union for virtual machine names so it might need some thinking and design :)