Re: Capistrano 1.1 (had been ruby-gem SwitchTower)

On 3/6/06, Jamis B. [email protected] wrote:

Capistrano is a utility for executing tasks in parallel across
multiple remote hosts. It was formerly known as SwitchTower.

Version 1.1 introduces a few changes:

  • Renamed! Due to the trademark infringement debacle of last week, we
    had to change the name. Moving forward it will be known as Capistrano.

Amazingly, I had just referred someone to this project earlier today,
and had been utterly confused when I couldn’t find it under the old
URL’s!

When just scanning subjects, ‘SwitchTower’ was an interesting-enough
name that I checked out the earlier emails. ‘Capistrano’ struck me as
something for the birds (heh…), so I had totally skipped over this
announcement…