On Tue, Oct 21, 2008 at 2:18 PM, Roger Dingledine <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > On Tue, Oct 21, 2008 at 10:29:44AM -0500, Jonathan Addington wrote: > > At one of the places where I use store fetching directory is routinely > > blocked. Can I bootstrap the portable version of Tor (1.2.19, WindowsXP Pro > > SP3) with data from the server (0.2.1.6-alpha on Ubuntu 7.10) I run? > > No. That wouldn't work because 0.1.2.x uses the v2 directory scheme, > and 0.2.0.x and 0.2.1.x use the v3 directory scheme. So if you run the > newer Tor versions, they won't fetch everything that 0.1.2.x would need > to connect to the network. > > You could in theory run matching versions and copy over the directory > data. I bet it would work if you try hard enough. > > But might I suggest you try the Tor Browser Bundle, which uses the Tor > 0.2.1.x tree and should be generally harder to block than your 0.1.2.x > solution? > > --Roger >
Roger, Thank you for the suggestion. I see that binaries for the 0.2.x branch are not yet up. I do pretty well with building stuff on Linux (always via SVN/CVS where possible) but find building the same programs on Windows can be... harder. For an experienced Windows/*nix user, but amateur programmer, how hard -- or rather how long -- do you think it would take me to build it from the source? -Jon
