From a139d543caa95c63aebd23954da8b61b9c0f17c0 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Robey Pointer <robey@twitter.com>
Date: Sat, 21 May 2011 19:30:06 -0700
Subject: slight readme cleanup
---
README.rst | 31 +++++++++++--------------------
1 file changed, 11 insertions(+), 20 deletions(-)
diff --git a/README.rst b/README.rst
index 6dc04aef..2ba06a3f 100644
--- a/README.rst
+++ b/README.rst
@@ -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``.
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