Fabric

On the page: http://docs.fabfile.org/0.9.0/installation.html you list dependencies. I did installation on win32 with easy_install.

But when I start fab, this error I get:

File “build\bdist.win32\egg\fabric\state.py”, line 74, in _get_system_username ImportError: No module named win32api

The library needed is http://sourceforge.net/projects/pywin32/, and references in fabric/paramiko I found are:

fabric/state.py

def _get_system_username():
    ...
    import win32api
    import win32security
    import win32profile
    return win32api.GetUserName()


def _rc_path():
    ...
    from win32com.shell.shell import SHGetSpecialFolderPath
    from win32com.shell.shellcon import CSIDL_PROFILE
    return "%s/%s" % (
        SHGetSpecialFolderPath(0,CSIDL_PROFILE),
        rc_file
    )

paramiko\win_pageant.py

also uses win32 package

My suggestions:

• please write down the dependency in http://docs.fabfile.org/0.9.0/installation.html
• put dependency in easy_install – only check if exists will do, in the case if pulling/installing it from PyPi is not possible (most probably)
• if possible – can you remove this dependency – it would be more convenient to use standard Python (2.5+) ctypes library (http://docs.python.org/library/ctypes.html, http://python.net/crew/theller/ctypes/). Personally I don’t like how Pywin32 installation (saves something to system32, to registry, 4 directories in site_packages, start menu …).