Re: [PATCH 0/4] Add support for XML-RPC over SSH (take two)

[Anthony Liguori <aliguori@us.ibm.com>]

Ewan Mellor wrote:
> On Tue, Jun 20, 2006 at 10:26:39AM +0100, Ewan Mellor wrote:
>
>   
>> On Wed, Jun 14, 2006 at 02:28:23PM -0500, Anthony Liguori wrote:
>>
>>     
>>> This series is a repost of the previous series taking into account 
>>> Ewan's feedback wrt error reporting.  Additionally, to make things a bit 
>>> saner, I changed the ssh invocation from being always done in the ctor 
>>> to being done on demand.  This means that xm commands like help won't 
>>> actually require a password if the ssh transport is being used.
>>>
>>> I've also included the HTTP/1.1 Keep-Alive patch as it's required for 
>>> this patch set.
>>>       
>> I've applied this whole set.  Thanks Anthony.  Could we have some
>> documentation patches too?
>>     
>
> I've just noticed that these patches only work on Python 2.4, because they use
> subprocess.  I've split SSHTransport out to its own file (which is reasonable
> in it's own right anyway), and if the import fails, it now disables the
> XML-RPC over SSH altogether.
>   

Ah, sorry, didn't realize that.

> If there's anyone out there who wants XML-RPC over SSH on Python 2.3, then a
> patch that used popen2.popen2 or xen.util.xpopen.xPopen3 instead of
> subprocess.Popen would be welcome.
>   

I'll put this on my TODO.  For future reference, what are the official 
versions of Python that we support and do you happen to know which 
distros have the older versions?

Regards,

Anthony Liguori

> Ewan.
>