[tahoe-dev] Newbie installation notes

[Patrick R McDonald]

On Sun, May 13, 2012 at 09:55:36AM +0200, Michael Rogers wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> Here are a few notes I made while trying out version 1.8.2 of
> Tahoe-LAFS. I thought a newbie's perspective on the setup process
> might be useful. I apologise if any of these are out of date, they're
> from last September.
>
> 1. On Ubuntu, 'python setup.py build' fails unless the python-dev
> package is installed.
>
> 2. quickstart.rst says "verify that the executable tool prints out the
> right version number", but what's the right number? It prints several.
>
> 3. running.rst recommends connecting to the public test grid, but the
> TestGrid wiki page says there's no longer a public gateway. I wasn't
> sure whether I needed a gateway (apparently not?).
>
> 4. The client's welcome page has scary red warning about not being
> connected to a helper. I wasn't sure whether I needed a helper
> (apparently not?).
>
> 5. There weren't enough servers in the test grid to upload a file, so
> I had to change shares.happy to 4.
>
> 6. Download URIs are too long to paste into emails.
>
> 7. I couldn't find a nice way to shut down the client.
>
> 8. After restarting the client, I couldn't find the URI of the file I
> uploaded in the first session.
>
> 9. I want a pony.
>
> These are all minor points but I thought I'd better share them since
> that's what I advise other people to do. :-)
>
> Cheers,
> Michael

These are absolutely most help and fantastic.  Please contact me off
list so I can work with you to create tickets for these.

Also on a side note, I am really interested in the Briar Project.

Cheers,
Patrick
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