[tahoe-dev] adding dependencies, raising version requirements Re: wiki gardening needed Re: darcs patch: modified quickstart.html to note dependency on python-...

[Greg Troxel]

"Zooko O'Whielacronx" <zooko at zooko.com> writes:

> On Thu, Sep 23, 2010 at 4:37 PM, Greg Troxel <gdt at ir.bbn.com> wrote:
>>
>> Sure, that's fine - but I missed the announcement here that the version
>> needed for tahoe had increased.
>
> I didn't mention it on the list! I guess from now on we should post to
> this list whenever we add dependencies or increase version
> requirements of dependencies.

yes, you definitely should.  we packagers need to know - dependency
changes should also be noted in NEWS, and in my mind are a big deal (not
saying you shouldn't do it, just that it should be loud).

>> ERROR:         /usr/ANONCVS/pkgsrc/security/py-cryptopp/work/.destdir/usr/pkg/cryptopp/extraversion.h
> ...
>> Where is it supposed to be?  Surely not
>
> Um, well that's a build-time file. None of the .cpp or .h or .hpp
> files are needed for run-time. Perhaps I'm not understanding the
> question.

Python installed it in the DESTDIR during install.  I don't grok
setup.py enough to know whether that was intended so I asked.  I can
make a full build log.
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