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
> >


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