Jamis, Thanks for the answer, I can certainly understand the situation. I write this on my Mac - at least I can choose my dev machine. :)
If anyone has experience with Windows+cygwin with cap, I'm all ears. In the meantime I will begin experimenting. - Brian On Jun 25, 10:16 pm, "Jamis Buck" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Brian, > > Capistrano cannot deploy _to_ Windows, although it can deploy_from_ > Windows. This is because cap requires an ssh server on the remote > host, and a POSIX shell that it can communicate with. If, somehow, you > have a windows machine that meets those requirements (perhaps via > cygwin or something) then you might have a chance of using cap to > deploy to windows, but I've never used it that way. > > I do understand that you don't always have a choice of deployment > environments, and if someone were to come up with a slick way to > support windows without overly complicating Capistrano, I might > consider it, but I'm certainly not the man to do the dirty work > myself. Not only am I lacking the Windows expertise, but I'm severly > lacking the passion, too. :) > > - Jamis > > On 6/25/07, Brian <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > > I'm having a hard time tracking down the current state of Capistrano's > > ability to deploy *to* Windows machines. The wiki > > athttp://capify.stikipad.com/wiki/ > > has an empty article listed, and the RoR wiki (http:// > > wiki.rubyonrails.org/rails/pages/CapistranoOnWindows) lists some > > seemingly good pointers on Cygwin usage, but is over a year stale and > > pretty terse to begin with. > > > Some of us can't choose what flavor of machine we deploy to (not in > > all cases at least), but we can choose to use a great deployment > > system like Capistrano. I'm hoping that where there's a will, there's > > a way. I've seen some posts from Jamis Buck mentioning Windows > > compatibility, so I remain hopeful. > > > Any advice or pointers to existing pages that I certainly might have > > missed? > > > Thanks in advance. > > > - Brian > > > p.s. "by current state" I mean either 1.4.1 or 2.0. --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/capistrano -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
