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Hello all,<br>
<br>
First time poster. I came upon the Tahoe project a couple of weeks ago
and thought it would be an ideal fit for sharing sensitive documents
via the distributed company I run. However, I having difficulty trying
to get up and running. <br>
<br>
I'm on Windows XP and am current with all updates. I followed the setup
instructions for Windows found here (however, I used the latest
versions for all available items rather than the specific version
numbers):<br>
<a
href="http://allmydata.org/source/tahoe-lafs/trunk/docs/quickstart.html">http://allmydata.org/source/tahoe-lafs/trunk/docs/quickstart.html</a><br>
<br>
After downloading and unzipping all items I attempted to run:<br>
<span class="Apple-style-span"
style="border-collapse: separate; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; orphans: 2; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; font-size: medium;"><span
class="Apple-style-span" style="font-style: italic;">python setup.py
build<br>
<br>
</span></span>That downloaded several "eggs" (not familiar with Python)
but seemed to fail with the error "Unable to find vcvarsall.bat". <br>
<br>
Searching Google I first found this page:<br>
<a
href="http://allmydata.org/pipermail/tahoe-dev/2009-October/003044.html">http://allmydata.org/pipermail/tahoe-dev/2009-October/003044.html</a><br>
<br>
Downloading the specific versions referenced there continued to fail.
Further Googling turned up detailed, expanded number of configuration
details:<br>
<a
href="http://www.mail-archive.com/tahoe-dev@allmydata.org/msg01587.html">http://www.mail-archive.com/tahoe-dev@allmydata.org/msg01587.html</a><br>
<br>
Following that, however, I seemed to have regressed. The error I now
get:<br>
<br>
<br>
C:\tahoe>python setup.py build<br>
Traceback (most recent call last):<br>
File "setup.py", line 384, in <module><br>
**setup_args<br>
File "C:\Python2-6-2\lib\distutils\core.py", line 126, in setup<br>
dist.parse_config_files()<br>
File "C:\Python2-6-2\lib\distutils\dist.py", line 374, in
parse_config_files<br>
parser.read(filename)<br>
File "C:\Python2-6-2\lib\ConfigParser.py", line 286, in read<br>
self._read(fp, filename)<br>
File "C:\Python2-6-2\lib\ConfigParser.py", line 482, in _read<br>
raise MissingSectionHeaderError(fpname, lineno, line)<br>
ConfigParser.MissingSectionHeaderError: File contains no section
headers.<br>
file: C:\Python2-6-2\lib\distutils\distutils.cfg, line: 1<br>
'{{{\n'<br>
<br>
Did I do something wrong to copy and paste the contents of the
distutils.cfg shown on that final web page? The page is from last
summer - is there an easy way of getting Tahoe running on a Windows
machine?<br>
<br>
One of the biggest needs is to have the install process as simple as
possible if I am going to get the principals on board to using Tahoe.
If installation on a Linux based system that much easier would it make
sense to create a VM with Tahoe already installed and just have them
run that image on their machine in something like Virtual Box?<br>
<br>
<div class="moz-signature">Matthew Reinbold<br>
Creative Principal, Vox Pop Design, <a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://voxpopdesign.com">http://voxpopdesign.com</a><br>
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<br>
On 4/24/2010 1:00 PM, <a class="moz-txt-link-abbreviated" href="mailto:tahoe-dev-request@allmydata.org">tahoe-dev-request@allmydata.org</a> wrote:
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1. Windows buildbot needed (Zooko O'Whielacronx)
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Date: Sat, 24 Apr 2010 11:40:05 -0600
From: "Zooko O'Whielacronx" <a class="moz-txt-link-rfc2396E" href="mailto:zookog@gmail.com"><zookog@gmail.com></a>
Subject: [tahoe-dev] Windows buildbot needed
To: tahoe-dev <a class="moz-txt-link-rfc2396E" href="mailto:tahoe-dev@allmydata.org"><tahoe-dev@allmydata.org></a>
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Folks:
The Windows buildbot was contributed by allmydata.com and it has gone
off-line. (I suspect allmydata.com is repurposing the hardware. Or
possibly it will come back on-line -- I don't know.)
Could anyone run a Windows buildbot for us? Your Windows machine
doesn't have to be online 24/7, but it ought to be on-line for at
least an hour per day in order to be a useful buildbot.
Thanks!
In other buildbot news, David Triendl's and Midnight Magic's buildbots
are disconnected from the buildmaster. See the Supported Builders link
from here: <a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://tahoe-lafs.org/buildbot/">http://tahoe-lafs.org/buildbot/</a>
Regards,
Zooko
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