[tahoe-dev] status of v1.8.1 -- please adopt an operating system

[Zooko O'Whielacronx]

Dear everyone:

Ten days ago I asked people to test the release candidate for v1.8.1.
We've seen some useful feedback on the mailing list and things are
looking good for the v1.8.1 codebase to be nice and stable.

One of the goals for this release is to let people on more platforms
more easily set up Tahoe-LAFS. (Problems with the setup process are
probably the number one complaint mentioned on the mailing list and
issue tracker right now.)

Tahoe-LAFS itself is pure Python and doesn't need to be compiled at
all, but some of its dependencies do, so a big part of the "ease of
setup" goal is to provide binary packages of those dependencies.

We need your help!

Please examine this pretty table and look for an operating system that you like:

http://tahoe-lafs.org/source/tahoe-lafs/deps/tahoe-lafs-dep-eggs/README.html

(Look at the Python 2.6 table. Python 2.6 is what is recommended in
http://tahoe-lafs.org/source/tahoe-lafs/trunk/docs/quickstart.html ,
so if there is only one version of Python that we support on your
favorite operating system, it ought to be 2.6.)

Any empty cell in that table means that we need someone to download a
source package of that dependency run "python setup.py bdist_egg" on
their favorite operating system, and send us the resulting .egg file.

Don't delay! Be the first kid on your block to contribute binary
packages of every dependency on your favorite operating system!

Thanks!

Zooko