ssh woes on windows

[Mark Hammond]

> | * If we choose 'search for ssh, fallback to paramiko', the person who
> uses pageant to manage their keys but also has ssh.exe on their path
> will need to set BZR_SSH=paramiko (or plink), else they will see a
> cryptic error message ("ERROR: Connection closed...") and the operation
> will fail.
> |
> 
> I think this is an extremely minority case. Why would you have ssh.exe
> on your path and use pageant? You have to work hard to install it and
> set it into your PATH. It isn't like it happens in a default install.

Actually, I didn't need to work hard at all - cygwin makes it quite easy :)  I was also chatting to a user on #bzr who *does* have ssh.exe on his path, but it is a copy of plink.exe - which he seemed to think was a fairly common.  'ssh.exe' could really be *anything*.
 
But at the end of the day, it does come down to my opinion "not at all uncommon" versus yours "uncommon" and whether the average windows user will be able to determine what is wrong when it doesn't work for them.  While I believe that I've got significant experience with Windows developers and development, I clearly can't prove my assertion.  So in the absence of any other support for this, I'll revert my ssh related change and let time tell us who was correct :)

Cheers,

Mark