[tahoe-lafs-trac-stream] [tahoe-lafs] #2069: binary eggs for linux don't work on Debian 7

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#2069: binary eggs for linux don't work on Debian 7
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     Reporter:  zooko      |      Owner:
         Type:  defect     |     Status:  new
     Priority:  normal     |  Milestone:  undecided
    Component:  packaging  |    Version:  1.10.0
   Resolution:             |   Keywords:  setuptools linux
Launchpad Bug:             |
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Comment (by zooko):

 I suspect that the solution is going to have to be to give up on the idea
 of distributing binaries that people can use on Linux. Instead, Linux
 users will have to have a compiler and Python header files installed, or
 will have to manually install dependencies (zfec, pycryptopp,
 zope.interface, Twisted, pyOpenSSL, and !PyCrypto) from a pre-built binary
 package instead of from source.

 However, if we could think of another hack to generate binary eggs that
 work on at least the most common Linuxes, I would be willing to try it. It
 could be that switching from CPythonAPI to cffi would help, but that would
 work only for the dependent packages that we maintain (zfec and
 pycryptopp) and not the others.

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