[tahoe-dev] [tahoe-lafs] #1014: provide binary .egg's for pyOpenSSL for linux-{i386, amd64}-py2.{5, 6}-ucs4

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#1014: provide binary .egg's for pyOpenSSL for linux-{i386,amd64}-py2.{5,6}-ucs4
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     Reporter:  nejucomo   |       Owner:  nejucomo                            
         Type:  defect     |      Status:  new                                 
     Priority:  major      |   Milestone:  1.8.1                               
    Component:  packaging  |     Version:  1.6.1                               
   Resolution:             |    Keywords:  binaries openssl debian install docs
Launchpad Bug:             |  
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Changes (by zooko):

  * keywords:  openssl debian install docs => binaries openssl debian
               install docs
  * milestone:  undecided => 1.8.1


Comment:

 Since the newest version of pyOpenSSL listed on
 http://launchpad.net/pyopenssl at the moment is 0.11a2, then we need to
 build bdist_egg's of pyOpenSSL 0.11a2 for all platforms which we intend
 for people to be able to install Tahoe-LAFS v1.8.1 without having a C
 compiler and Python headers installed. (Note that the upstream maintainers
 of pyOpenSSL ''might'' be willing to provide binaries if we ask nicely:
 https://bugs.launchpad.net/pyopenssl/+bug/238658  .)

 Sadly, if we do all the work to build and host such binary eggs, and then
 a new version of pyOpenSSL gets uploaded to !PyPI or launchpad or in
 source form only, then our build scripts will immediately start refusing
 to use the pyOpenSSL 0.11a2 binaries that we built. Fixing this so that
 our build scripts would continue to use the pyOpenSSL 0.11a2 binaries (or
 even good old pyOpenSSL 0.10 binaries) even if a newer version of
 pyOpenSSL is known to them is the subject of #1233.

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