[tahoe-dev] barriers to using tahoe

[Jody Harris]

On Wed, Feb 3, 2010 at 4:47 PM, David-Sarah Hopwood <
david-sarah at jacaranda.org> wrote:

> Jody Harris wrote:
> > After a great deal of reflection, I have two recommendations that should
> be
> > minimal for developers, but make the greatest leap toward usability for
> > users.
> >
> >  - SMB by default for Windows
>
> The problem with this is that we don't have an open-source SMB server
> implementation. The "NeoGeo" SMB libraries that are used in the
> allmydata.com client are not open-source.
>

Unhappiness follows....

Well, then, FTP it should be unless more promising options become available.

>
> >  - FTP by default (localhost) for *nix
>

I asked a question about forking Twisted  for the short term. There was no
response to that. Either, "that's a good idea with obvious
consequences.....," or "That's stupid because....."

jody
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