how-to? BZR on windows with Putty SSH

[Jan Hudec]

On Fri, Mar 17, 2006 at 05:12:42 -0600, Larry Peacock wrote:
> Hi Folks,
> 
> We are using CVS on windows via putty ssh.  The keys have been set up
> and login is automatic using Pageant 
> http://www.tartarus.org/~simon/puttydoc/Chapter9.html
> 
> I have set up subversion and mercurial to use plink as the ssh
> transport for working with remote repositories
> http://www.tartarus.org/~simon/puttydoc/Chapter7.html
> 
> In subversion, a shell variable was set
> 
> SVN_SSH="x:/path/plink.exe"
> 
> And .subversion/config got a line:
> 
> [tunnels]
> ssh = $SVN_SSH plink.exe
> 
> for mercurial, mercurial.ini got
> 
> [ui]
> ssh = x:/path/plink.exe
> 
> This was enough to enable doing
> 
> svn checkout svn+ssh://machine/repo .
> 
> and
> 
> hg clone ssh://machine/repo .
> 
> ** I have not found documentation explaining how BZR can be configured
> to use putty's plink ssh transport on Windows.  A quick look at code
> in bzrlib/transport seems to indicate more coding is needed accomplish
> what was done with subversion and mercurial? **
> 
> I would be willing to get bzr+ssh working on Windows and write up a
> recipe if anyone will offer a few tips on on how to approach it and
> where to start.

Do you really need putty? IIRC paramiko -- the pure python ssh/sftp library
that bzr uses -- works on Windows.

Please, does anyone know whether paramiko is bundled in the windows
installer?

-- 
						 Jan 'Bulb' Hudec <bulb at ucw.cz>
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