Question on Windows Build

[Gary van der Merwe]

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On 12/10/2010 16:20, John Arbash Meinel wrote:
> On 10/9/2010 11:04 AM, Maritza Mendez wrote:
> 
>> I'm going to set up a Winx86 build and then see if I can make it go for
>> Winx64.
> 
>> I'm looking at doc/win32_build_setup.txt and have a couple questions and
>> a tip:
> 
>> After following references, its not obvious to me whether this is still
>> relevant:
> 
>>        k) Patch pycrypto, so that it supports older Windows installs.
>>     (see bugs
>>           #248522, #272791, #497733). The direct link to the patch is:
>>           http://launchpadlibrarian.net/16133025/win32_clock.patch
>>           This may not end up necessary w/ pycrypto 2.1, especially if
>>     paramiko can
>>           be taught to use the new functionality (avoiding the warning).
> 
> 
>> Is that timing patch still needed for Windows?  I'm guessing yes, but
>> I'd like a confirmation.
> 
> I believe for the lastest installers we've used a patched paramiko and a
> newer pycrypto.  Gary has been doing the work, so he would know for sure.
> 
> Basically, paramiko was doing a couple things that pycrypto didn't like
> (especially on Windows with a slow time.time() tick). We patched around
> it, and tried to submit it upstream, but they said "We're changing that
> completely in the next release". Which took about a year to actually be
> released. And paramiko then needed to be updated to match, but paramiko
> hasn't done anything either...
> 
> (Also note that just upgrading pycrypto causes it to start issuing lots
> of warnings about using the old api.)
> 
> 
> So we'll have to watch closely here, as there have been a lot of
> dependency issues.

For 2.2 and 2.3, I have been including pycrypto 2.3, and a patched
version of paramiko 1.7.6, that woks with the new pycrypto api.

The patched version of paramiko is here:
http://github.com/garyvdm/paramiko

I sent a pull requst (mp in bzr land) to the maintainer of paramiko, but
have not got any response :-(

Gary



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