Re: [Fab-user] Basic questoins

[Jeff Forcier]

Hi Peter,

I can't be of much help with your other Windows specific questions,
but I can hopefully answer the below:

On Thu, Aug 12, 2010 at 8:30 PM, Peter Bee <address@hidden> wrote:
>
> But when I tried my first test, I got the following error:

> <snip>

You may be experiencing issue #194:

    http://code.fabfile.org/issues/show/194

Are you on 64-bit Windows? If so, the PyCrypto dependency may have
silently failed to install. Read that ticket and its comments and see
if that helps you figure it out.

Regards,
Jeff

>
> --- On Thu, 8/12/10, Kevin Horn <address@hidden> wrote:
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> From: Kevin Horn <address@hidden>
> Subject: Re: [Fab-user] Basic questoins
> To: address@hidden
> Date: Thursday, August 12, 2010, 12:10 PM
>
> You might try CopSSH: http://www.itefix.no/i2/node/27
>
> Kevin Horn
>
> On Thu, Aug 12, 2010 at 1:32 PM, Peter Bee <address@hidden> wrote:
>
> I am shooting to setup Fabric on a basic Windows system, but I have problem 
> to locate a proper SSH2 server, does anybody have recommend? Unless it's 
> free, I probably will try with eval version then buy.
>
> Thanks,
> Peter
>
> --- On Thu, 8/12/10, Peter Bee <address@hidden> wrote:
>
> From: Peter Bee <address@hidden>
> Subject: Re: [Fab-user] Basic questoins
> To: "Jeff Forcier" <address@hidden>
> Cc: address@hidden
> Date: Thursday, August 12, 2010, 8:59 AM
>
> Hi Jeff,
>
> Thank you for your prompt and helpful reply.
>
> It's definitly good news to me that Fabric can target Windows systems (we are 
> using Win 2008 Server R2, I hope it's under the coverage of Fabric targets). 
> But my search (including user samples) are all about targeting Linux/Unix, do 
> you have any source of targeting Windows?
>
> To my understand, we only need to install Fabric/Python/Paramiko on our 
> pushing (local) system, are there any requirements (except SSH2 server) on 
> the remote systems?
>
> You mentioned to support single command invokation, should all standard 
> systems (Windows and Linux <RedHat 5.4>) have that feature? How can I verify 
> that? Sorry for this question, I guess it's too basic (for you), but I just 
> want to ensure that I have all the requirements before I move too far.
> Thanks,
> Peter
>
>
> --- On Wed, 8/11/10, Jeff Forcier <address@hidden> wrote:
>
> From: Jeff Forcier <address@hidden>
> Subject: Re: [Fab-user] Basic questoins
> To: "Peter Bee" <address@hidden>
> Cc: address@hidden
> Date: Wednesday, August 11, 2010, 6:32 PM
>
> Hi Peter,
>
> On Wed, Aug 11, 2010 at 9:08 PM, Peter Bee <address@hidden> wrote:
>
> > Is there any way it can work on Windows?
>
> Fabric can be run on any platform that supports Python, so yes, it
> will run on Windows. And while most of the development and userbase
> runs it from Unix-based platforms like Linux and Mac OS X, there's at
> least a few Windows users who keep us honest :) Cygwin is highly
> recommended, though not required.
>
> In terms of what Fabric can target (i.e. the remote machines connected
> to) it can target anything that runs a valid SSH2 server and supports
> single command invocation.
>
> > What is the current stable release of Fabric, 0.9 or 1.0?
>
> 0.9.1 is the latest stable release; 1.0 is not a real release yet,
> it's simply the label for the expected next major release. Once 1.0
> comes out (which will be soon) both 0.9.x and 1.0.x lines will be
> supported for a while, and 1.0 will be largely (not entirely)
> backwards compatible so it should be an easy upgrade.
>
> > We have installed Python2.6.5 on our systems, is that good for Fabric?
>
> Python 2.6.5 is fine, though you will need to install Paramiko 1.7.6
> after installing Fabric, as there is a known issue with our bundled
> version of the Paramiko library on Python 2.6.5.
>
> Best,
> Jeff
>
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