Re: Windows-specific questions about Bazaar

[Alexander Belchenko]

Eli Zaretskii пишет:
>> From: Alexander Belchenko <address@hidden>
>> Date: Wed, 02 Dec 2009 00:15:49 +0200
>>
>>> Sure, it works; I didn't want to imply it doesn't I think the default
>>> SSH client (paramiko, whatever that is) uses pageant for
>>> authentication, but plink is not used unless BZR_SSH is set.
>> I'm not quite understand your last remark.
> 
> There was a period missing there, after "doesn't".  Does that help to
> understand it?  I was just telling Lennart how I think it works by
> default: uses pageant for authentication, but does not use plink or
> psftp for the actual access.
> 
>> Using paramiko on Windows is safe choice.
> 
> I was asking about relative merits.  Are there any?

Using bzr with plink has proved to have problems in some corner cases, because 
bzr launch plink as
subprocess and therefore has very little control over it. Paramiko is python 
library with rich API,
so bzr can have more fine-grained control over it.