http://napkin.highgroove.com/ en-us 40 The Napkin ~ A Blog By Highgroove Studios comments <p>If you are following the Capistrano preview releases, you may have noticed a new dependency. Capistrano now depends on HighLine, an open source input library by yours truly.</p> <p>The reason for the switch is that Capistrano needed a reliable way to grab passwords in a cross-platform way. That turns out to be a lot harder than you might guess. On Unix, termios can make short work of such challenges, but that&#8217;s an extra C extension install and it doesn&#8217;t work on Windows.</p> <p>HighLine combines the knowledge of several platform gurus to use the right solutions in the right place. Even with all that knowledge as an advantage Capistrano&#8217;s maintainer, Jamis Buck, still had concerns. termios can&#8217;t be made a HighLine dependency, since we want to stay cross-platform and when defaulting to stty HighLine was a little flaky for the way Capistrano users might need it. Jamis and I discussed these concerns and HighLine was patched with better support for Capistrano&#8217;s needs. Jamis later added the dependency and HighLine benefited from another round of expert knowledge.</p> <p>It still impresses me how much we can accomplish with the super friendly open source model of development. Thanks for the input Jamis!</p> Mon, 14 May 2007 18:52:00 EST <a href="/articles/2007/05/14/capistrano-takes-the-highline-i-mean-road">Capistrano Takes the HighLine, I Mean Road</a> <a href="/articles/2007/05/14/capistrano-takes-the-highline-i-mean-road">Capistrano Takes the HighLine, I Mean Road</a>