Re: [tahoe-dev] 1.9 update: soon! Need help with PyCrypto-2.4!

2011-10-30 Thread Jimmy Tang
On Sat, Oct 29, 2011 at 1:47 PM, Zooko O'Whielacronx wrote: > On Sat, Oct 29, 2011 at 1:29 AM, Jimmy Tang wrote: > > > >> If anybody is dying to use Tahoe-LAFS v1.9 with Python 2.4, speak up > now! > >> > > > > I do, but fortunately I can deal with it in my systems where i just > package > > up n

Re: [tahoe-dev] 1.9 update: soon! Need help with PyCrypto-2.4!

2011-10-29 Thread Josh Wilcox
On Sat, Oct 29, 2011 at 12:29 AM, Jimmy Tang wrote: > > > On Fri, Oct 28, 2011 at 8:02 PM, Zooko O'Whielacronx wrote: > >> >> >> If anybody is dying to use Tahoe-LAFS v1.9 with Python 2.4, speak up now! >> >> > I do, but fortunately I can deal with it in my systems where i just > package up newer

Re: [tahoe-dev] 1.9 update: soon! Need help with PyCrypto-2.4!

2011-10-29 Thread Vladimir Rusinov
On Fri, Oct 28, 2011 at 11:02 PM, Zooko O'Whielacronx wrote: > Short term solution: declare that Tahoe-LAFS v1.9 doesn't support > Python 2.4 anymore. (This is because this particular bug in PyCrypto > is probably specific to being it built for Python 2.4) I'm okay with > that, and it is a fast wa

Re: [tahoe-dev] 1.9 update: soon! Need help with PyCrypto-2.4!

2011-10-29 Thread Zooko O'Whielacronx
On Sat, Oct 29, 2011 at 1:29 AM, Jimmy Tang wrote: > >> If anybody is dying to use Tahoe-LAFS v1.9 with Python 2.4, speak up now! >> > > I do, but fortunately I can deal with it in my systems where i just package > up newer python builds for myself. I'm not sure I understand. You're saying that y

Re: [tahoe-dev] 1.9 update: soon! Need help with PyCrypto-2.4!

2011-10-29 Thread Jimmy Tang
On Fri, Oct 28, 2011 at 8:02 PM, Zooko O'Whielacronx wrote: > > > If anybody is dying to use Tahoe-LAFS v1.9 with Python 2.4, speak up now! > > I do, but fortunately I can deal with it in my systems where i just package up newer python builds for myself. unfortunately i am away in germany and hong

Re: [tahoe-dev] 1.9 update: soon! Need help with PyCrypto-2.4!

2011-10-28 Thread James A. Donald
On 2011-10-29 6:01 AM, Shawn Willden wrote: Are there any well-written crypto libraries, in any language? Having spent a frightful amount of time trudging through openssl lately as well as a couple of Java crypto libs (Cryptix and Bouncy Castle) I've begun thinking that the intersection between

Re: [tahoe-dev] 1.9 update: soon! Need help with PyCrypto-2.4!

2011-10-28 Thread Shawn Willden
On Fri, Oct 28, 2011 at 1:02 PM, Zooko O'Whielacronx wrote: > I'm extremely annoyed at the fact that we depend on PyCrypto, which I > regard as too sloppily-written to be secure Are there any well-written crypto libraries, in any language? Having spent a frightful amount of time trudging throug

Re: [tahoe-dev] 1.9 update: soon! Need help with PyCrypto-2.4!

2011-10-28 Thread Zooko O'Whielacronx
I'm extremely annoyed at the fact that we depend on PyCrypto, which I regard as too sloppily-written to be secure, and also as too sloppily-written to build and install on all the platforms we support. For a while there the pain had lessened because there were no new releases of PyCrypto, and peopl

[tahoe-dev] 1.9 update: soon! Need help with PyCrypto-2.4!

2011-10-28 Thread Brian Warner
I'd love to release 1.9 this weekend. I've given up on most of the lingering docs tickets. I have some more manual testing to do (in particular updating the "tahoe-deps" tarball and testing against it), but we're pretty close. One problem that surfaced, which I need someone to investigate: FreeSt