Just wanted to drop you all a note and let you know that I''m still plugging away on Net::SSH. As you may or may not know, I''m in the midst of refactoring (and rewriting portions of) Net::SSH, so that it can take advantage of Needle (my dependency injection library, http://needle.rubyforge.org). In the long run, this will be a Very Good Thing, I think. It has already enabled me to unit test the vast majority of the new codeset, and I''m feeling very confident in it. Currently, I''ve got about 90% of it done, including the transport layer, user authentication, the connection protocol (including channels, etc.), port forwarding, process management, and proxies (though the proxy implementations remain to be unit tested). To be done: SFTP and the open-uri interface. And SFTP will be a bear. I hope to finish implementing the missing SFTP functionality as well. With any luck, Net::SSH 0.5 will be released in a couple of weeks. Note, however, that the API for 0.5 will be different than it was for 0.1. I''ll try to post a summary of the external API changes, to make porting applications easier. After I release 0.5, I''ll be focusing on implementing an scp wrapper and (if I didn''t get it into 0.5) finishing the sftp implementation. I may also try to write some command-line utilities (like sftp and scp, and if I''m feeling particularly brave, even a watered-down ssh interface). Once those are done, Net::SSH will enter a beta phase in an attempt to fix up any glaring bugs. Hopefully, a 1.0 release will be available in January or February of 2005. I _do not_ intend to support SSH1 in the 1.0 release. If there is sufficient interest, I *may* try to work it into a 2.0 release sometime later next year, but to be honest, my interest in this project is flagging and I''m anxious to move on to other things. I''m really pushing to get 1.0 out and off my back as soon as possible. It''s been a lot of fun, but I can only take so much of this kind of fun at a time. :) Comments? Questions? Suggestions? - Jamis -- Jamis Buck jgb3@email.byu.edu http://www.jamisbuck.org/jamis