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WebPutty dev here. Feel free to shoot us any questions here on HN or on twitter @webputty.

• rogerbinns 15y ago
  The most annoying thing is the name. Putty is a well known SSH client and terminal emulator. On seeing the name WebPutty I'd believed Putty had been ported to a web interface.
  • tghw 15y ago
    That's not a question. :)
    • frogtown 15y ago
      OK, i'll bite. How did the product get the name, WebPutty? No need to answer if this question is wasting useful development time.
      • tghw 15y ago
        It's just the idea of making the web, specifically your site, a little more malleable, that you can quickly morph how it looks.
  • benatkin 15y ago
    I disagree. Prefixing names with "Web" is common but not pervasive. "Putty" is just an English word. BTW the SSH client is actually called PuTTY.
  • ComputerGuru 15y ago
    Same here. Would have just upvoted, but upvote counts aren't visible and people are replying to disagree. I figured this was a web-based SSH terminal, which is pretty cool. Adding "Web" prefix to a popular product's name pretty clearly implies a web port.
    • johnyzee 15y ago
      First thing I thought, I was quite confused.
  • freehunter 15y ago
    I had never heard of WebPutty until this post, and when I saw the headline I got excited that I could install PuTTY and use it in my browser. I understand where the devs got the name as explained in the post down below this, but even clever names need to have some consideration of existing product names.
• thestranger 15y ago
  I'm following the step-by-step instructions to run it on my google app engine account, but I get an error when I run "fab deploy." It asks me for my email and does a bunch of stuff, but then this happens: Zipping ziplibs. Traceback (most recent call last): File "/Library/Python/2.6/site-packages/fabric/main.py", line 712, in main args, kwargs File "/Library/Python/2.6/site-packages/fabric/tasks.py", line 327, in execute results['<local-only>'] = task.run(*args, **new_kwargs) File "/Library/Python/2.6/site-packages/fabric/tasks.py", line 112, in run return self.wrapped(*args, **kwargs) File "/Users/swiss/webapps/WebPutty/fabfile.py", line 53, in decorated_func return func(*args, **kwargs) File "/Users/swiss/webapps/WebPutty/fabfile.py", line 66, in deploy ziplibs(env.deploy_path) File "/Users/swiss/webapps/WebPutty/fabfile.py", line 178, in ziplibs os.path.walk(to_zip, add_file, (zip_file, os.path.dirname(to_zip))) File "/System/Library/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/2.6/lib/python2.6/posixpath.py", line 224, in walk func(arg, top, names) File "/Users/swiss/webapps/WebPutty/fabfile.py", line 177, in add_file zip_file.write(os.path.join(dir_name, name), os.path.join(dir_name[len(common_base):], name)) File "/System/Library/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/2.6/lib/python2.6/zipfile.py", line 1024, in write fp = open(filename, "rb") IOError: [Errno 21] Is a directory Any idea what the problem is?
  • nikcub 15y ago
    It is attempting to zip a directory in the fabfile. You don't need to zip the contents of an app to deploy it. Try deploying using the SDK directly with: $ python2.5 appcfg.py -A appname update . replace 'appname' with the name of the app you registered.
  • tghw 15y ago
    Try taking the ziplibs(env.deploy_path) call out. It's not strictly necessary.
    • vjsingh 15y ago
      Thanks! That worked. I get "Error: Server Error" when visiting my appspot url though (drpepecss.appspot.com) Also, getting this error after successful deployment: Completed update of app: drpepecss, version: 1 Uploading cron entries. Uploading task queue entries. Reverting /Users/Varun/Documents/workspace/webputty3/js_css_packages/packages.py Traceback (most recent call last): File "/Library/Python/2.5/site-packages/fabric/main.py", line 712, in main *args, **kwargs File "/Library/Python/2.5/site-packages/fabric/tasks.py", line 327, in execute results['<local-only>'] = task.run(*args, **new_kwargs) File "/Library/Python/2.5/site-packages/fabric/tasks.py", line 112, in run return self.wrapped(*args, **kwargs) File "/Users/Varun/Documents/workspace/webputty3/fabfile.py", line 53, in decorated_func return func(*args, **kwargs) File "/Users/Varun/Documents/workspace/webputty3/fabfile.py", line 76, in deploy clean_packages(env.deploy_path) File "/Users/Varun/Documents/workspace/webputty3/fabfile.py", line 89, in clean_packages compress.revert_js_css_hashes(base_path) File "/Users/Varun/Documents/workspace/webputty3/compress.py", line 23, in revert_js_css_hashes popen_results(['hg', 'revert', '--no-backup', path]) File "/Users/Varun/Documents/workspace/webputty3/compress.py", line 152, in popen_results proc = subprocess.Popen(args, stdout=subprocess.PIPE) File "/System/Library/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/2.5/lib/python2.5/subprocess.py", line 594, in __init__ errread, errwrite) File "/System/Library/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/2.5/lib/python2.5/subprocess.py", line 1097, in _execute_child raise child_exception OSError: [Errno 2] No such file or directory