[tahoe-dev] failed install with python 2.7

[Joseph Cusumano]

Thank you very much, Zooko, for your detailed reply and assistance.  I 
was in the process of slowly untangling this myself--for example, I 
installed the correct version of twisted and MingGW, and got things to 
compile a bit further... but your new table will, I hope, greatly speed 
up the process!

I did notice the recommendation for 2.6, but it does say 2.7 is OK. 
Since I need 2.7 for other things, I was trying to avoid installing 2.6 
and possibly introducing other conflicts.

Thanks again. I'll keep you posted!

Cheers,

Joe


Zooko O'Whielacronx wrote the following on 2:59 PM:
> Dear Joseph Cusumano:
>
> Welcome! Thank you for the bug report.
>
> The problem you are having is because there are some binary packages
> required by Tahoe-LAFS and we (or the maintainers of those packages)
> provide those packages for Python 2.6 but not for Python 2.7 on
> Windows, and you don't have a compiler installed (which would
> automatically build those binary packages from source).
>
> Did you not notice the part of quickstart.html that said: "On Windows,
> we recommend the use of Python v2.6"? :-)
>
> Maybe we should state this more strongly. The fact is, we recommend
> that version because any other version will not work unless you have a
> compiler installed on your system. :-)
>
> However, PenguinOfDoom from the Twisted channel on IRC has just kindly
> supplied us with binary packages for Python 2.7 for Win32 (but not for
> Win64). I just uploaded those to our server and rebuilt the
> README.html, so this matrix now has a row of filled-in packages for
> Python 2.7 on Win32:
>
> http://tahoe-lafs.org/source/tahoe-lafs/deps/tahoe-lafs-dep-eggs/README.html
>
> (You can inspect the current README.html and compare it to
> README-old.html, which is a copy that I just made of README.html
> before updating it so you could see what it looked like back when your
> setup attempt failed.)
>
> http://tahoe-lafs.org/source/tahoe-lafs/deps/tahoe-lafs-dep-eggs/README-old.html
>
> So if this works, the setup you attempted should actually succeed
> (after downloading these binaries from our server), and if it does
> then we can update the quickstart.html to explain that Windows users
> really need to use Python 2.7, unless they have a working compiler
> installed on your system.
>
> Please let us know how it goes!
>
> Regards,
>
> Zooko
>