Re: [Fab-user] Fabric release candidate 1 out and **on PyPI**!

[Steve Steiner (listsin)]

On Nov 2, 2009, at 9:02 AM, Jeff Forcier wrote:

> Hi all,
>
> Robey has just released Paramiko 1.7.6 which includes (among other
> changes) the fix for our SSHException problem.

We shall see...

> I haven't tested it yet myself, but plan to once I get back into
> things (still stuck in bed/on drugs, and trying to keep typing to a
> minimum. heh.)

Hope you're feeling better!

> but I mostly wanted to get this out there so anyone who
> has the time/inclination, can grab a copy and see if it introduces any
> new problems.
>
> Since the current 0.9 codebase has 1.7.4 included in it, I think the
> process needs to be:
>
> 1. install Fab 0.9rc1 or later, if you haven't already
> 2. install Paramiko ==1.7.6 via easy_install/pip (which should
> override/upgrade the vendorized 1.7.4. I think.)
> 3. Double-check the assumption in #2 by doing "import paramiko ;
> print(paramiko.__version__)"
> 4. Run some fab tasks, or the test suite if you have the deps
> installed, and see how things work.
>
> Given the realities of this stuff (i.e. new code =~ new bugs) I do not
> realistically expect to revert the vendorization at this time; I'll
> probably wait until 0.9.1 or 1.0. But I'll need your help in testing
> the new Paramiko regardless :)

Jeff, I'll give this a whirl, probably tonight when I get a few  
minutes.  I'll diff the Paramiko revs to see if they changed a lot; no  
idea.

In any case, I think your abundance of caution is well warranted and I  
wouldn't be in a big hurry to undo the way we had to do it by  
including the whole thing in the Fabric build.

It took a very long time, and lots of non-progress on the Paramiko  
side, to have to finally come to that very sub-optimal arrangement.  I  
wouldn't be in a big hurry to trust the "new improved!" version,  
regardless.

S