Comment 8 for bug 402978

I got bitten by this as well.

I downloaded this and PyCrypto and just put the python package directories where I wanted to use them (since I was led to believe it was pure Python and didn't have any native code dependencies). Wrote up some quick code for transferring files via SFTP and discovered upon running the code that PyCrypto had components that needed to be compiled.

Now I find out that I might need to install MinGW just to compile PyCrypto! I'm working in Python partly to avoid all of these dependencies!

I was pretty excited to find a Python SSH library in pure Python, and disappointed to discover that the claim was not entirely true.