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@@ -5,7 +5,7 @@ paramiko :Paramiko: Python SSH module :Copyright: Copyright (c) 2003-2009 Robey Pointer <robeypointer@gmail.com> -:Copyright: Copyright (c) 2014 Jeff Forcier <jeff@bitprophet.org> +:Copyright: Copyright (c) 2013-2014 Jeff Forcier <jeff@bitprophet.org> :License: LGPL :Homepage: https://github.com/paramiko/paramiko/ :API docs: http://docs.paramiko.org @@ -34,7 +34,8 @@ that should have come with this archive. Requirements ------------ - - python 2.6 or better <http://www.python.org/> + - Python 2.6 or better <http://www.python.org/> - this includes Python + 3.3 and higher as well. - pycrypto 2.1 or better <https://www.dlitz.net/software/pycrypto/> - ecdsa 0.9 or better <https://pypi.python.org/pypi/ecdsa> diff --git a/sites/www/index.rst b/sites/www/index.rst index 7fefedd2..a8e72624 100644 --- a/sites/www/index.rst +++ b/sites/www/index.rst @@ -1,7 +1,7 @@ Welcome to Paramiko! ==================== -Paramiko is a Python (2.5+) implementation of the SSHv2 protocol [#]_, +Paramiko is a Python (2.6+, 3.3+) implementation of the SSHv2 protocol [#]_, providing both client and server functionality. While it leverages a Python C extension for low level cryptography (`PyCrypto <http://pycrypto.org>`_), Paramiko itself is a pure Python interface around SSH networking concepts. diff --git a/sites/www/installing.rst b/sites/www/installing.rst index 0d4dc1ac..955a0a59 100644 --- a/sites/www/installing.rst +++ b/sites/www/installing.rst @@ -14,9 +14,9 @@ via `pip <http://pip-installer.org>`_:: Users who want the bleeding edge can install the development version via ``pip install paramiko==dev``. -We currently support **Python 2.5/2.6/2.7**, with support for Python 3 coming -soon. Users on Python 2.4 or older are urged to upgrade. Paramiko *may* work on -Python 2.4 still, but there is no longer any support guarantee. +We currently support **Python 2.6, 2.7 and 3.3** (Python **3.2** should also +work but has a less-strong compatibility guarantee from us.) Users on Python +2.5 or older are urged to upgrade. Paramiko has two dependencies: the pure-Python ECDSA module `ecdsa`, and the PyCrypto C extension. `ecdsa` is easily installable from wherever you @@ -31,34 +31,6 @@ PyCrypto are a couple gotchas associated with installing PyCrypto: its compatibility with Python's package tools, and the fact that it is a C-based extension. -.. _pycrypto-and-pip: - -Possible gotcha on older Python and/or pip versions ---------------------------------------------------- - -We strongly recommend using ``pip`` to as it is newer and generally better than -``easy_install``. However, a combination of bugs in specific (now rather old) -versions of Python, ``pip`` and PyCrypto can prevent installation of PyCrypto. -Specifically: - -* Python = 2.5.x -* PyCrypto >= 2.1 (required for most modern versions of Paramiko) -* ``pip`` < 0.8.1 - -When all three criteria are met, you may encounter ``No such file or -directory`` IOErrors when trying to ``pip install paramiko`` or ``pip install -PyCrypto``. - -The fix is to make sure at least one of the above criteria is not met, by doing -the following (in order of preference): - -* Upgrade to ``pip`` 0.8.1 or above, e.g. by running ``pip install -U pip``. -* Upgrade to Python 2.6 or above. -* Downgrade to Paramiko 1.7.6 or 1.7.7, which do not require PyCrypto >= 2.1, - and install PyCrypto 2.0.1 (the oldest version on PyPI which works with - Paramiko 1.7.6/1.7.7) - - C extension ----------- |