I've been using Net::SSH::W32perl 0.06 originally provided by a repo on
http://www.soulcage.net/ (Scott Scecina) for a few years now. And my
install still works great. Unfortunately this site is down and I can no
longer find that specific version and dependencies. I believe Scott had
hacked some parts of that package or any of its dependencies so as to
make it work without Math::BigInt::GMP but not falling back to the
slowest math libs. Without fast math routines using Net::SSH::Perl is
incredibly slow (10 minutes or more to connect).

A couple years back I solved this problem on Solaris by building against
libgmp, but I haven't created a working solution on Windows using a
clean development machine. This concerns me since I have applications
in production which rely on the continue development and availability of
this functionality. I've been testing the packages provided at
http://theory.uwinnipeg.ca/ppms/ with no luck on the performance issue
so far. I will be testing against Net::SSH:Perl v1.23 (instead of 1.30)
next.

If anyone has any tips or suggestions, I would appreciate it.
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From: listmail <listmail [at] triad.rr.com>
> I've been using Net::SSH::W32perl 0.06 originally provided by a repo on
> http://www.soulcage.net/ (Scott Scecina) for a few years now. And my
> install still works great. Unfortunately this site is down and I can no
> longer find that specific version and dependencies. I believe Scott had
> hacked some parts of that package or any of its dependencies so as to
> make it work without Math::BigInt::GMP but not falling back to the
> slowest math libs. Without fast math routines using Net::SSH::Perl is
> incredibly slow (10 minutes or more to connect).

I've needed SSH (and SFTP) a few weeks ago, I spent some time trying
to make Net::SFTP, Net::SSH::Perl and Net::SSH::W32perl working, ran
into all kinds of problems and later installed Net::SSH2 and it seems
to work without problems. I did not run any benchmarks, but it seems
to work fine.

Jenda
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