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 <j...@bitprophet.org> wrote: From: Jeff Forcier <j...@bitprophet.org> Subject: Re: [Fab-user] Basic questoins To: "Peter Bee" <yb...@yahoo.com> Cc: fab-user@nongnu.org Date: Wednesday, August 11, 2010, 6:32 PM Hi Peter, On Wed, Aug 11, 2010 at 9:08 PM, Peter Bee <yb...@yahoo.com> 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 -- Jeff Forcier Unix sysadmin; Python/Ruby developer http://bitprophet.org
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