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diff --git a/sites/www/installing.rst b/sites/www/installing.rst index 955a0a59..7d61632d 100644 --- a/sites/www/installing.rst +++ b/sites/www/installing.rst @@ -2,6 +2,8 @@ Installing ========== +.. _paramiko-itself: + Paramiko itself =============== @@ -23,6 +25,28 @@ PyCrypto C extension. `ecdsa` is easily installable from wherever you obtained Paramiko's package; PyCrypto may require more work. Read on for details. +.. _release-lines: + +Release lines +------------- + +Users desiring stability may wish to pin themselves to a specific release line +once they first start using Paramiko; to assist in this, we guarantee bugfixes +for at least the last 2-3 releases including the latest stable one. This currently means Paramiko **1.11** through **1.13**. + +If you're unsure which version to install, we have suggestions: + +* **Completely new users** should always default to the **latest stable + release** (as above, whatever is newest / whatever shows up with ``pip + install paramiko``.) +* **Users upgrading from a much older version** (e.g. the 1.7.x line) should + probably get the **oldest actively supported line** (see the paragraph above + this list for what that currently is.) +* **Everybody else** is hopefully already "on" a given version and can + carefully upgrade to whichever version they care to, when their release line + stops being supported. + + PyCrypto ======== |