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@@ -38,18 +38,9 @@ that should have come with this archive. Requirements ------------ - - python 2.3 <http://www.python.org/> + - python 2.3 or better <http://www.python.org/> (python 2.2 is also supported, but not recommended) - - pycrypto 1.9+ <http://www.amk.ca/python/code/crypto.html> - (2.0 works too) - -pycrypto compiled for Win32 can be downloaded from the HashTar homepage: - http://nitace.bsd.uchicago.edu:8080/hashtar - -you can also build it yourself using the free MinGW tools and this command -line (thanks to Roger Binns for the info):: - - python setup.py build --compiler=mingw32 bdist_wininst + - pycrypto 2.1 or better <https://www.dlitz.net/software/pycrypto/> If you have setuptools, you can build and install paramiko and all its dependencies with this command (as root):: @@ -60,34 +51,34 @@ dependencies with this command (as root):: Portability ----------- -i code and test this library on Linux and MacOS X. for that reason, i'm -pretty sure that it works for all posix platforms, including MacOS. it +i code and test this library on Linux and MacOS X. for that reason, i'm +pretty sure that it works for all posix platforms, including MacOS. it should also work on Windows, though i don't test it as frequently there. if you run into Windows problems, send me a patch: portability is important to me. -python 2.2 may work, thanks to some patches from Roger Binns. things to +python 2.2 may work, thanks to some patches from Roger Binns. things to watch out for: * sockets in 2.2 don't support timeouts, so the 'select' module is imported to do polling. - * logging is mostly stubbed out. it works just enough to let paramiko - create log files for debugging, if you want them. to get real logging, - you can backport python 2.3's logging package. Roger has done that + * logging is mostly stubbed out. it works just enough to let paramiko + create log files for debugging, if you want them. to get real logging, + you can backport python 2.3's logging package. Roger has done that already: http://sourceforge.net/project/showfiles.php?group_id=75211&package_id=113804 -you really should upgrade to python 2.3. laziness is no excuse! :) +you really should upgrade to python 2.3. laziness is no excuse! :) some python distributions don't include the utf-8 string encodings, for -reasons of space (misdirected as that is). if your distribution is +reasons of space (misdirected as that is). if your distribution is missing encodings, you'll see an error like this:: LookupError: no codec search functions registered: can't find encoding this means you need to copy string encodings over from a working system. (it probably only happens on embedded systems, not normal python -installs.) Valeriy Pogrebitskiy says the best place to look is +installs.) Valeriy Pogrebitskiy says the best place to look is ``.../lib/python*/encodings/__init__.py``. |