[tahoe-dev] Build issue

[Zooko O'Whielacronx]

On Tue, May 11, 2010 at 5:15 PM, David-Sarah Hopwood
<david-sarah at jacaranda.org> wrote:
> sidsal sal wrote:

> # Searching for darcsver>=1.2.0
> # Reading http://allmydata.org/source/tahoe/deps/tahoe-dep-sdists/
> # Download error: [Errno 10060] A connection attempt failed because the
> # connected party did not properly respond after a period of time, or
> # established connection failed because connected host has failed to
> # respond -- Some packages may not be found!
>
> This seems to be purely a networking (or perhaps firewall) problem.
> Can you download files from
> <http://allmydata.org/source/tahoe/deps/tahoe-dep-sdists/>
> on the same machine?

Probably the firewall would allow your web browser to download the
files but does not allow the Python executable to download the files.

The work-around that Sid discovered in his original post was to copy
the tahoe-deps directory. He wrote:

> As a solution, I copied "tahoe-deps" directory (from http://tahoe-lafs.org/source/tahoe-lafs/deps/) in my top directory, build seems to be fine.

An alternative work-around is to configure your firewall to allow
outgoing connections by your Python executable.

I wonder if we should switch to making the sumo zip file be the
recommended file on
http://tahoe-lafs.org/source/tahoe-lafs/trunk/docs/quickstart.html .

Then people who have a firewall or other networking issue will
probably build successfully just by following the current
quickstart.html.

The cost is download size. For the current snapshot:

[ ]	allmydata-tahoe-1.6.0-r4256.zip	20-Mar-2010 13:33 	1.3M
[ ]	allmydata-tahoe-1.6.0-r4256.tar.gz	20-Mar-2010 13:33 	1.2M
[ ]	allmydata-tahoe-1.6.0-r4256.tar.bz2	20-Mar-2010 13:32 	1.0M
[ ]	allmydata-tahoe-1.6.0-r4256-SUMO.zip	20-Mar-2010 13:32 	7.1M
[ ]	allmydata-tahoe-1.6.0-r4256-SUMO.tar.gz	20-Mar-2010 13:31 	7.0M
[ ]	allmydata-tahoe-1.6.0-r4256-SUMO.tar.bz2	20-Mar-2010 13:29 	6.9M

http://tahoe-lafs.org/source/tahoe-lafs/snapshots/?C=M;O=D

So people would download 7.1 MB instead of 1.3 MB. A few years ago
that was a big deal, but nowadays maybe most people won't notice the
difference.

Whoops! Not true! I just tried downloading those files from
http://tahoe-lafs.org and they came down slowly -- about 30 KB/s. I
guess they are at the wrong end of a DSL line and the more people who
try to download them at once the worse it will be. I guess we need to
get a new public Tahoe-LAFS grid operated by volunteers running so
that we can host the downloadables from there for the release!

I am leaning toward making the downloadable linked from
quickstart.html be
http://tahoe-lafs.org/source/tahoe-lafs/releases/allmydata-tahoe-1.7.0-SUMO.zip
instead of http://tahoe-lafs.org/source/tahoe-lafs/releases/allmydata-tahoe-1.7.0.zip
.

Regards,

Zooko