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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) 2012 Jeff Forcier <jeff@bitprophet.org> +:Copyright: Copyright (c) 2013 Jeff Forcier <jeff@bitprophet.org> :License: LGPL :Homepage: https://github.com/paramiko/paramiko/ @@ -20,7 +20,7 @@ What ---- "paramiko" is a combination of the esperanto words for "paranoid" and -"friend". it's a module for python 2.2+ that implements the SSH2 protocol +"friend". it's a module for python 2.5+ that implements the SSH2 protocol for secure (encrypted and authenticated) connections to remote machines. unlike SSL (aka TLS), SSH2 protocol does not require hierarchical certificates signed by a powerful central authority. you may know SSH2 as @@ -39,8 +39,7 @@ that should have come with this archive. Requirements ------------ - - python 2.3 or better <http://www.python.org/> - (python 2.2 is also supported, but not recommended) + - python 2.5 or better <http://www.python.org/> - pycrypto 2.1 or better <https://www.dlitz.net/software/pycrypto/> If you have setuptools, you can build and install paramiko and all its @@ -58,19 +57,6 @@ 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 -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 - 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! :) - some python distributions don't include the utf-8 string encodings, for reasons of space (misdirected as that is). if your distribution is missing encodings, you'll see an error like this:: |