On Sat, May 29, 2010 at 13:49:21 +0200, Radoslav Dorcik wrote: > I'm not sure what other problems are here related to need within Darcs > support more than one SSH implementation. If the problem is > passing different options to different commands I do not feel it like a > good reason for pushing people into some particular SSH implementation.
So one reason to drop PuTTY support in favour of OpenSSH or TortoiseSSH may be that we don't have a good way to deal with ssh keys in the later. I don't really remember the issues behind it, but I seem to remember that all the Darcs/Windows guides that get written talk about setting a key with an empty passphrase. I think it may be something to do with PuTTY grabbing the passphrase from stdin instead of the terminal. > Is this just stderr vs stdour difference? > Within the discussion there are concerns about the unnecessary > messages on stderr. > Why we want suppress any message from ssh command executed by the darcs ? > I would like to see example of the noisy message there is talked about :) Again, I don't remember it all. It's one of those annoying situations where you change something X and it subtly breaks some other thing Y, eg. with X being interaction with OpenSSH and Y being interaction with PuTTY. Now, I do vaguely remember that in the bad old pre darcs transfer-mode days, we'd get lots and lots of output from pscp progress reports. But now that darcs transfer-mode is more widespread and the darcs 1 servers are slowly starting to go away, we could consider that we have even *less* reason to suppress the output. So you maybe should consider submitting a simple patch for that. > Anyway, we can pass "-batch" flag for plink (included in patch) at > least for "hang" prevention. Hmm, can't comment on that without learning more about PuTTY. BTW, back in the day, I used to run PuTTY on MacOS X (just to see what would happen in Darcs). It could be a handy trick. Probably won't tell you *everything* about how it would behave on Windows, but it could yield some clues. -- Eric Kow <http://www.nltg.brighton.ac.uk/home/Eric.Kow> PGP Key ID: 08AC04F9
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