Mike, please do. We discussed a few months back, on this list,
whether or not to switch to highline vs. termios, and I was lukewarm
to the idea then. I'm willing now to consider a patch, though.
Thanks,
Jamis
On Jan 12, 2007, at 5:15 AM, Mike Bailey wrote:
>
> Someone submitted a ticket to deprec's trac pointing out that by
> requiring termios I locked Windows users out of installing the gem.
> Termios doesn't install on Windows so I'm going to remove the
> dependency from deprec.
>
> Although deprec doesn't call termios directly I made it a dependency
> because I think not echo'ing the sudo password to the screen is
> *really* important. Too important to leave it to the user to read the
> docs and install it manually.
>
> My mystery submitter sent an example of how cross platform lib
> 'Highline' can do the work of Termios.
>
> Jamis, if I put together a patch to replace the termios code would
> you consider using Highline?
> The library looks pretty good and may be useful for other Capistrano
> tasks. It's even got validation.
>
>>> require 'highline/import'
>>> zip = ask("Zip? ") { |q| q.validate = /\A\d{5}(?:-?\d{4})?\Z/ }
> Zip? d3
> Your answer isn't valid (must match /\A\d{5}(?:-?\d{4})?\Z/).
> ? 43223
> => "43223"
>
> http://highline.rubyforge.org/doc/
>
> - Mike
>
>
>
> >
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