Forgot the list... :-/

2008/11/7 Nicolas Steinmetz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>

> 2008/11/6 Jeff Forcier <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>
>  Your closing statement does sound relatively accurate -- your tool's
>> focus seems to be on setting up a "staging area" locally, getting
>> things ready there, copying the files in one go, and then executing
>> scripts on the remote end. Fabric, on the other hand, has been more
>> aimed at writing a Python script "locally" which uses the SSH tunnel
>> to actually execute the shell level commands on the remote server.
>> File copying is obviously much the same anywhere.
>
>
> Glad to see I understood all well :-)
>
> The deployment logic can be changed so I'm not (so far)  reluctant on using
> Fabric, if it can improve things...
>
>
>
>> There's really nothing preventing you from executing your current
>> workflow using Fabric, however, since it's capable of working locally
>> as well as remotely.
>
>
> That's also what I was thinking about and what I basically try to implement
> so far.
>
>
>
>> The main thing Fabric is missing that you seem to rely on is your
>> "environments" and "tags", which sound similar to an item on our todo
>> list, namely implementing a way to group servers together (something
>> Capistrano refers to as 'roles'). We also do not have a baked-in
>> concept of environments, but it's easy enough right now to implement
>> them (I believe the current docs explore this somewhat, IIRC).
>
>
> For the moment, I do as it is presented in the doc with a def production()
> for ex. It may be not so efficient as a way to manage but it works as for
> now. It will be great if the notions of hosts and roles are handled (I read
> the mail about the patch for this, it looks in a good way).
>
> Regards,
> Nicolas
>
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