[tahoe-dev] help! how do I manage dependencies on JavaScript code?

[Randy Bush]

> The WUI, SFTP, this visualization thing. Whatever causes the
> standalone download package to still not build on FreeBSD. (I stopped
> trying.)

i succeeded, with much pain.  more dependencies than an old alcoholic.

> So, so much could be unbundled. It's a filesystem. NFS has no PyCrypto
> dependency, Samba has no darcs dependency...

darcs, not needed for the base but needed for builslave, was a
non-trivial part of the pain.  why does the linux community need to
reinvent the same wheels over and over?  too much free time on their
hands?

>> and you can set up FUSE by using sshfs with the Tahoe-LAFS SFTP
>> server).
> You can also tunnel HTTPS in GPG-encrypted email, but you don't. That
> is backwards. You make a FUSE filesystem, mount it, and if for some
> reason you want to unnecessarily access it via SFTP instead of using
> it as the distributed filesystem it is, you use sftp(1) like normal.

bingo

the goal should be brutal simplicity, especially in anything that has
security in its name.

randy