Updated readme, docs (#100)

* Updated readme
* Updated documentation
* Updated changelog

Author: pkittenis

Changelog.rst

@@ -12,6 +12,14 @@ Changes
 * Added `ssh.channel.Channel.get_exit_status` implementation and tests.
 
 
+Packaging
+----------
+
+* OSX wheel builds now use embedded `libssh` rather than brew package.
+* Dropped Windows Python 3.7 builds.
+* Added Python 3.14 manylinux wheels.
+
+
 1.1.1
 +++++
 

README.rst

@@ -25,7 +25,7 @@ Bindings for libssh_ C library.
 Installation
 _____________
 
-Binary wheels are provided for Linux (manylinux 2014, x86_64 and aarch64), OSX (12, 13 and 14 for brew Python), and Windows 64-bit (Python 3.7+).
+Binary wheels are provided for Linux (manylinux 2014, x86_64 and aarch64), OSX (12, 13 and 14 for brew Python), and Windows 64-bit (Python 3.8+).
 
 Wheels have *no dependencies*.
 
@@ -52,12 +52,12 @@ See `command execution script <https://github.com/ParallelSSH/ssh-python/blob/ma
 Features
 _________
 
-The library uses `Cython`_ based native code extensions as wrappers to ``libssh``.
+The library provides Python bindings to the ``libssh`` C library.
 
 * Thread safe - GIL released as much as possible
 
   * libssh threading limitations apply - anything not supported in C is not supported in Python
-* Very low overhead thin wrapper
+* Very low overhead bindings
 * Object oriented
 
   * Memory freed automatically and safely as objects are garbage collected by Python
@@ -69,4 +69,3 @@ The library uses `Cython`_ based native code extensions as wrappers to ``libssh`
 
 
 .. _libssh: https://www.libssh.org
-.. _Cython: https://www.cython.org

doc/installation.rst

@@ -15,6 +15,8 @@ By default, the package will try to build against an embedded version of ``libss
 
 To build against a system library, export the ``SYSTEM_LIBSSH=1`` environment variable prior to building.
 
+Note that the library supports its embedded ``libssh`` version and only that version. Use previous ``ssh-python`` versions if wanting to build against older ``libssh`` versions. See `Changelog <Changelog.html>`_.
+
 The following libraries are required:
 
 * OpenSSL 1.0 or 1.1, >=1.1 for Ed25519 support
@@ -43,7 +45,7 @@ Building on Windows
 
 Requirements:
 
-* Python >= 3.6
+* Python >= 3.8
 * Visual Studio 14 or above
 * OpenSSL 1.1
 * Zlib
@@ -60,3 +62,5 @@ Steps
 Note dependencies will need to be built statically to be distributable to other Windows systems.
 
 Cygwin/MingW probably do not work.
+
+No support is offered for building on Windows from source.