Ah, yeah. I originally planned for Cap 2.3 to be built on top of Net::SSH::Multi , but as I began reworking things to that end, it ended up touching a _lot_ of code--a lot more than I wanted to change for 2.3. Cap + Net::SSH::Multi is currently (tentatively) targetted for cap 3.0.
- Jamis On May 4, 2008, at 9:50 PM, Jeff wrote: > > On May 4, 4:55 pm, Jamis Buck <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> On May 4, 2008, at 3:33 PM, Jeff wrote: >> >>> 1. Just curious as to why cap doesn't use MultiSSH under the hood, >>> since the essence of capistrano (do stuff on multiple servers via >>> ssh) >>> seems to be a natural fit for the purpose of MultiSSH as I >>> understand >>> it (connect to multiple servers via ssh). >> >> MultiSSH, do you mean this one:http://oss.linbit.com/multissh/?Or >> something else? > > Sorry, I meant Net::SSH::Multi that you mentioned in your announcement > for cap 2.3. From the description I immediately assumed it was > extracted from the inner workings of capistrano, but then I guess you > mentioned that cap doesn't actually use it. > >> >>> 2. What's the best way for newbies to learn about all the predefined >>> tasks and variables in 2.3? Any online or paid (i.e. book) >>> references >>> you would recommend? It's been hard for those at my workplace to >>> feel >>> confident about upgrading from 1.4 because a lot of it still seems >>> mysterious to some extent. >> >> Alas, documentation is really Capistrano's achilles heel right now. >> The "best" way to learn about the predefined tasks is via "cap -T", >> and then "cap -e taskname" for each task, to read about what they do. >> The best way to learn about the predefined variables is to look >> through capistrano/recipes/deploy.rb. >> >> Not what you wanted to hear, I'm sure. > > I can't complain: cap is free; and I haven't contributed to the > docs... yet :-) > > Thanks > Jeff > >> - Jamis > > --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/capistrano -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
