[tahoe-dev] Compilation and using problems with tahoe 1.2.0 on many platforms ?

[zooko]

Denis:

Thank you for the details about glibc dependency in the python-zfec  
package.  I will work on that (tahoe ticket #498).

I have some more questions about your experience using the install docs.

>> I don't understand why you didn't read the doc that I wrote -- the  
>> one named '"Install Tahoe"'.  That doc isn't perfect -- if you had  
>> followed it you may well have had the same or similar problems.   
>> But I am confused about why several people, including you, have  
>> for some reason skipped that document when trying to install.
>
> I tested it item by item ! (and for ubuntu it worked perfectly) But  
> for windows there is about nothing describing the compilation  
> process ! In "More details" page there are some indications, but  
> i'm not python expert, nor win32 developper at all... I don't  
> understand clearly the python compilation process on win32. Does  
> the setup.py has to be launched by win32 python.exe, or the cygwin  
> one ?

I am still confused about what you read -- the currently version of  
install.html does not mention "setup.py".  The document that I mean  
is this one:

http://allmydata.org/source/tahoe/trunk/docs/install.html

Is that the one that you started with?  Did you attempt to follow the  
directions on that page or did you skip that page and go to the  
"InstallDetails" page on the wiki?

If you didn't attempt to follow those directions, I would really like  
to understand why you didn't.

If you did so attempt, I would really like to understand why it  
didn't work.  :-)

Regards,

Zooko

tickets mentioned in this mail:

http://allmydata.org/trac/tahoe/ticket/498 # automate the production  
of .deb's of dependent libraries