Use paramiko or other python ssh library??

[harlowja]

It might be interesting to see what the effects of if a pure-python ssh library is used instead of shelling out to ssh/sftp?

1. http://www.lag.net/paramiko

Not sure if it will be better (I haven't used it, but might be a neat idea).

[tomerfiliba]

it's a good idea, and it could live side-by-side with the SshMachine, e.g., we'll also have a ParamikoMachine that uses paramiko (assuming you only use it if you have it installed).

do you want to work on the patch? shouldn't be too hard :)

[fruch]

I was working on something similar on the rpyc code, I didn't pushed into my fork, it wasn't good enough.
that was my first thought then I found out I already had ssh on my windows.

I think windows user can simply install msysGit and voila you have ssh.
(could be easier then installing paramkio and it dependencies, keep in mind some of it isn't pure python)

[harlowja]

Ya, I can look into it; it might not be worth the pain (especially if paramiko doesn't work that well). Thats the nice thing about just using ssh is that its pretty well known to work...

[khorn]

Also the ssh package that Fabric uses might be useful here, rather than paramiko. It's a fork of paramiko, created because they were having trouble getting bugfixes in quickly. It's still pretty much the same as paramiko, but is likely to get fixes much faster.

URL here:
https://github.com/bitprophet/ssh/

[tomerfiliba]

thanks. if anyone wants to submit even an experimental patch, that would be very helpful

[tomerfiliba]

is anyone working on such a thing?