From: Carl Youngblood <carl.youngblood@...>
Date: 2004-07-30T04:56:08+09:00
Subject: Re: [ANN] Net::SSH 0.0.5

Okay, thanks for the clarification.

On Fri, 30 Jul 2004 04:17:49 +0900, Jamis Buck <jgb3@email.byu.edu> wrote:
> Carl Youngblood wrote:
> > Do you really mean "pure ruby"?  I thought that ruby relied on OpenSSL
> > C code to do a lot of its stuff.
> 
> I do mean pure Ruby. The Net::SSH stuff is all Ruby. Yes, it has
> dependencies on other libraries that are not pure Ruby, but Net::SSH
> itself consists of only Ruby code. I mean, if you get nit-picky enough,
> no Ruby library is "pure-Ruby", since Array, Hash, String, and the like
> are all implemented in C.
> 
> Also, since "openssl" is one of the standard Ruby libraries, it's not as
> onerous a depenency as it could be.
> 
> - Jamis
> 
> 
> 
> >
> > On Thu, 29 Jul 2004 13:31:48 +0900, Jamis Buck <jgb3@email.byu.edu> wrote:
> >
> >>Net::SSH 0.0.5 is now available! (Yes, this comes hard on the heels of
> >>0.0.4, but I'm going out of town for a week and a half and figured I
> >>should release the work that has been done in the last few days, since
> >>it was significant.)
> >>
> >>Net::SSH is a pure-Ruby implementation of an SSH2 client. It may be
> >>obtained at:
> >>
> >>   http://rubyforge.org/projects/net-ssh
> >>
> >>The complete (!) users manual and API documentation may be read at:
> >>
> >>   http://net-ssh.rubyforge.org
> >>   http://net-ssh.rubyforge.org/api
> >>
> >>Version 0.0.5 adds the much-anticipated SSH agent support, but (alas)
> >>only on Unix-ish systems. (The PuTTY "pageant" agent is sufficiently
> >>different from the OpenSSH ssh-agent utility that it will require a
> >>pretty bit of work to interface with... any takers?)
> >>
> >>This version also provides an "rb-keygen" command-line utility for
> >>generating keys. It mirrors a subset of the functionality of
> >>"ssh-keygen", so if you've got ssh-keygen available, you might as well
> >>use it for generating keys. If you don't, you can use rb-keygen instead.
> >>
> >>One particularly significant bug fix was suggested by Daniel Hobe: in
> >>0.0.4 and earlier, all of a user's private keys were loaded at startup
> >>time, which meant that if the keys were protected by passphrases, the
> >>user had to enter those passphrases for all keys up front, even if none
> >>of the keys were ever used. This was annoying. Now, key loading is
> >>delayed until the key is actually needed, so you never need to enter a
> >>passphrase for a private key unless it is actually going to be used.
> >>
> >>Various other improvements and fixes have been added as well--see the
> >>ChangeLog for the complete list. Also, don't forget to read the users
> >>manual--all planned chapters have been drafted, and I'm just awaiting
> >>comments. (Thanks to those of you that have submitted comments on the
> >>documentation already--they've helped a ton.)
> >>
> >>Special thanks for this release go to Daniel Hobe, without whose
> >>suggestions, comments, encouragement, and patches this release would not
> >>be nearly as slick.
> >>
> >>(I think we may be getting close to a 0.1 release!)
> >>
> >>--
> >>Jamis Buck
> >>jgb3@email.byu.edu
> >>http://www.jamisbuck.org/jamis
> >>
> >>"I use octal until I get to 8, and then I switch to decimal."
> >>
> >>
> >
> > 
> > .
> 
> 
> >
> 
> --
> Jamis Buck
> jgb3@email.byu.edu
> http://www.jamisbuck.org/jamis
> 
> "I use octal until I get to 8, and then I switch to decimal."
> 
>