[tahoe-dev] help needed! package Tahoe-LAFS for your favorite platform.

[Zooko Wilcox-O'Hearn]

Folks:

I expect that Tahoe-LAFS v1.6 is going to be more widely seen than  
any previous release. In part this is because it is mature and usable  
enough that I'm ready to advertise it to hackers from the "nosql"  
community, to a hundred thousand computer geeks who read Boing Boing,  
etc. However, as things currently stand the vast majority of people  
who read about it, think it is interesting, and then try to download  
it will immediately give up because they don't have a working C++  
compiler and Python header files on their system, and there is no  
binary package of zfec, pycryptopp, or pyOpenSSL for their particular  
platform.

Please help! There are two "layers" of packaging, and we could use  
help with both of them. The first "layer" is to build a binary egg.  
This is very easy -- just get the source code for zfec or pycryptopp,  
make sure you have a good C++ compiler and Python headers installed,  
and run "python setup.py bdist_egg". This will produce a binary egg  
good for use on your platform and your major version of Python. We  
support Python 2.4, 2.5, and 2.6, but if most people on your platform  
can be expected to use a particular version of Python then you can  
just build a binary egg for that version. Oh, and of course you  
should always run tests first: "python setup.py test".

The next layer is to make a real native package of Tahoe-LAFS + zfec  
+ pycryptopp for your favorite platform. We already have that for  
Ubuntu. We need it for all other platforms!

Thanks!

Regards,

Zooko