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.

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.

First thing I thought, I was quite confused.

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.

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.

That's not a question. :)

OK, i'll bite. How did the product get the name, WebPutty?

No need to answer if this question is wasting useful development time.

It's just the idea of making the web, specifically your site, a little more malleable, that you can quickly morph how it looks.

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?

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.

Try taking the ziplibs(env.deploy_path) call out. It's not strictly necessary.

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