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David Wilson 10 years ago
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History And Future
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Future
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* Connect back using TCP and SSL.
* Python 3 support.

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howitworks
getting_started
api
history
Introduction
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**There is no requirement for installing packages, copying files around,
writing shell scripts, upfront configuration, or providing any secondary link
to the remote machine**. Due to the origins of econtext for use in managing
potentially damaged infrastructure, the remote machine need not even have a
writeable filesystem.
to the remote machine**. Due to its origins for use in managing potentially
damaged infrastructure, the remote machine need not even have a writeable
filesystem.
It is not intended as a generic RPC framework; the goal is to provide a robust
and efficient low-level API on which tools like **Salt** or **Ansible** can be
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2.4** released November 2004, making it suitable for managing a fleet of
potentially ancient corporate hardware. For example econtext can be used out of
the box against Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5, which was released in 2007.
There is currently no support for Python 3, and no solid plan for supporting it
any time soon. Due to constraints on implementation size and desire for
compatibility with ancient Python versions, conventional porting methods such
as ``six.py`` are likely to be unsuitable.

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