tahoe 1.16.0

[Sajith Sasidharan]

On Wed, 2021-10-20 at 12:35 -0400, Greg Troxel wrote:

> 
> 3)  txi2p
> 
> https://pypi.org/project/txi2p/#history
> 
> This was last released on April 3, 2017.  I have a note that there isn't
> a release, but maybe there isn't a release that works with python3.  In
> any case, pkgsrc, probably like most packaging systems, only wants to
> package releases, and having a release that's 4.5 years old is generally
> a clue of an unhealthy maintenance situation.
> 
> So I wonder if I am confused, if that version really works with python3
> and is recommended, or if leaving it out is still the best approach.
> 

Sadly no, that version of txi2p does not work with Python3.  The upstream
project had Python3 support in the master branch for a while, but its
maintainer was not available to make a relase.  So a fork was made, named
txi2-tahoe, just to unblock the porting process:

https://pypi.org/project/txi2p-tahoe/

Hopefully the fork will be an interim measure, but we all know that some
interim measures have the nasty property of becoming long term measures!
 
I guess long term plans about the library's maintenance will depend on if
there's sufficient interest in continued I2P support in Tahoe-LAFS.  If that
turns out to be the case, it certainly should have more than one maintainer.

Regards,
Sajith.