On Jul 17, 2014, at 2:34 AM, Adi Roiban <a...@roiban.ro> wrote:
> Hi,
>
> On 17 July 2014 00:40, Glyph Lefkowitz <gl...@twistedmatrix.com> wrote:
> There's a new Python-based asynchronous SSH client and server in town:
>
> <http://asyncssh.timeheart.net/#>
>
> This looks to have a much more straightforward API and way better
> documentation than Conch, although it's of course python 3.4+ only and lacks
> many of Conch's sophisticated (if somewhat idiosyncratic) terminal handling
> features.
>
> I hope that this project will spur a little friendly competition from Conch's
> maintainers, such as we are :-).
>
>
> How did you found this project?
The author announced it on the Tulip list. Why do you ask?
> I could not find it on PyPi and I failed to find any information about how to
> contribute to the project... I did sent an email to the author.
It's on Github. There's a link on the author's page.
> I could not find a suite of automated tests. I hope that asyncssh is willing
> to compete with Twisted Conch SSH and improve on this :)
Huh, I hadn't gotten that far :-).
> (...) I prefer Conch API. (...)
Glad to hear it :).
> Conch source code is very readable (for it's size and age) and I manage to
> put it into use just by reading the code and docstrings/API docs.
I'm definitely glad that people can figure out how to use Conch, even given the
state of its documentation :). But it's definitely more of a struggle than it
could be. I think asyncssh's documentation style is one to aspire to: it's
very straightforward, and tells you how to do useful things with very minimal
examples. I think there are some clunky bits of the Conch API which could be
cleaned up, but even totally as-is we could probably asyncssh's their
documentation outline, and possibly toss in a few more goodies as well.
-glyph
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