Comment 14 for bug 414743

Note that Alexander's change doesn't actually make Paramiko the default, for people like me who have cygwin installed and thus have a valid 'ssh' implementation on the path. For this, you have to still specify "BZR_SSH=paramiko" as an environment variable.

So it would probably be good to take this one step farther and actually make 'paramiko' the default client if nothing else is specified. Something basically involving changing the order of lookup on Windows to look for 'paramiko' before it looks for 'ssh'.

I was somewhat against this originally when Mark Hammond proposed it. I've since been using paramiko for a while, and find that it will most likely give the best value for users. I miss being able to configure short names for hosts in .ssh/config, but I *really* prefer having Pageant handling my logins.

Not to mention that if we switch more to GUI level apps, then we can have QBzr give a password prompt, rather than having it show up on a terminal.