Re: [tor-dev] Tor Browser Launcher

2013-02-21 Thread Micah Lee
Thanks for all this feedback! On 02/19/2013 02:56 PM, Jacob Appelbaum wrote: https://github.com/ioerror/torbrowser-launcher/commit/bfe97f49e53c1de5a697216bbab3ac6eb5d20090#L0R64 I'm not sure if arch is portable. I could easily switch it to uname -m, if that's more portable. My guess is

Re: [tor-dev] Tor Browser Launcher

2013-02-19 Thread adrelanos
I followed the readme for dependency installing, building and installing from the develop branch. Running into two issues trying this... LC_ALL and LANG is not set on my system. develop ~/torbrowser-launcher/dist/deb_dist $ torbrowser-launcher Tor Browser Launcher

Re: [tor-dev] Tor Browser Launcher

2013-02-19 Thread adrelanos
Micah Lee: On 02/19/2013 03:29 AM, adrelanos wrote: I followed the readme for dependency installing, building and installing from the develop branch. Running into two issues trying this... LC_ALL and LANG is not set on my system. develop ~/torbrowser-launcher/dist/deb_dist $

Re: [tor-dev] Tor Browser Launcher

2013-02-19 Thread k e bera
On Wed, 20 Feb 2013 02:39:10 + adrelanos adrela...@riseup.net wrote: Micah Lee: On 02/19/2013 03:29 AM, adrelanos wrote: I followed the readme for dependency installing, building and installing from the develop branch. Running into two issues trying this... LC_ALL and LANG is not

Re: [tor-dev] Tor Browser Launcher

2013-02-19 Thread Jacob Appelbaum
Micah Lee: On 02/18/2013 12:29 PM, Jacob Appelbaum wrote: I was assuming that making the launcher depend on a system Tor would be troublesome. However now that I'm looking at https://www.torproject.org/docs/debian again, it seems like it could totally work. What about for Ubuntu users? For

Re: [tor-dev] Tor Browser Launcher

2013-02-19 Thread Micah Lee
On 02/19/2013 06:39 PM, adrelanos wrote: What operating system are you using? Debian Wheezy. Weird, that's what I'm running Wheezy too. But just to be safe, I decided I'd make a new Debian Squeeze vm and try to build it and run it in there. I found several small problems and fixed them.

Re: [tor-dev] Tor Browser Launcher

2013-02-18 Thread Jacob Appelbaum
Micah Lee: In my spare time I've been working on a way to make the Tor Browser Bundle easier to use for GNU/Linux users. I've mostly been talking about it with other people on tor-talk and in this bug: https://trac.torproject.org/projects/tor/ticket/5236 Thanks for documenting so much on that

Re: [tor-dev] Tor Browser Launcher

2013-02-18 Thread adrelanos
Jacob Appelbaum: Do you plan to download TBB over Tor that is provided by the system, say by adding a dependency on a system Tor? There has been a bit discussion about this in https://trac.torproject.org/projects/tor/ticket/5236 already. (Search for over Tor to quickly navigate it it.) I think

Re: [tor-dev] Tor Browser Launcher

2013-02-18 Thread Leo Unglaub
Hey, On 2013-02-18 18:33, adrelanos wrote: Right, for such users it wouldn't work anyway, because downloading Tor Browser Launcher from the repository is unencrypted (but signed) anyway. thats not 100% correct. You can use transport encryption (HTTPS) for the repository servers. You simply

Re: [tor-dev] Tor Browser Launcher

2013-02-18 Thread adrelanos
Leo Unglaub: Hey, On 2013-02-18 18:33, adrelanos wrote: Right, for such users it wouldn't work anyway, because downloading Tor Browser Launcher from the repository is unencrypted (but signed) anyway. thats not 100% correct. You can use transport encryption (HTTPS) for the repository

Re: [tor-dev] Tor Browser Launcher

2013-02-18 Thread Jacob Appelbaum
Micah Lee: On 02/18/2013 12:15 AM, Jacob Appelbaum wrote: Do you plan to download TBB over Tor that is provided by the system, say by adding a dependency on a system Tor? I was assuming that making the launcher depend on a system Tor would be troublesome. However now that I'm looking at

Re: [tor-dev] Tor Browser Launcher

2013-02-18 Thread Micah Lee
On 02/18/2013 12:29 PM, Jacob Appelbaum wrote: I was assuming that making the launcher depend on a system Tor would be troublesome. However now that I'm looking at https://www.torproject.org/docs/debian again, it seems like it could totally work. What about for Ubuntu users? For normal

Re: [tor-dev] Tor Browser Launcher

2013-02-18 Thread krugar
Jacob Appelbaum: Well, which should your users be using? From my perspective, I think you should give them the alpha and help them report bugs! :-) maybe give the user the choice, with stable as the default? after all, this project aims to make it easier for non-powerusers to get TBB running,

Re: [tor-dev] Tor Browser Launcher

2013-02-18 Thread Micah Lee
On 02/18/2013 02:31 PM, adrelanos wrote: Why not phrase https://check.torproject.org/RecommendedTBBVersions ? No updates planed for it even in long term as far I am following trac... Oh cool, so Tor already has a file with the recommended TBB version! And this gets updated regularly when new

Re: [tor-dev] Tor Browser Launcher

2013-02-18 Thread adrelanos
Jacob Appelbaum: adrelanos: Micah Lee: Well, which should your users be using? From my perspective, I think you should give them the alpha and help them report bugs! :-) Interesting idea. Anyone else have opinions on this? I think I'd be fine giving people the alpha, but I also don't want

Re: [tor-dev] Tor Browser Launcher

2013-02-18 Thread adrelanos
Micah Lee: On 02/18/2013 02:31 PM, adrelanos wrote: Why not phrase https://check.torproject.org/RecommendedTBBVersions ? No updates planed for it even in long term as far I am following trac... Oh cool, so Tor already has a file with the recommended TBB version! And this gets updated

Re: [tor-dev] Tor Browser Launcher

2013-02-18 Thread adrelanos
Leo Unglaub: Hey, On 2013-02-18 18:33, adrelanos wrote: Right, for such users it wouldn't work anyway, because downloading Tor Browser Launcher from the repository is unencrypted (but signed) anyway. thats not 100% correct. You can use transport encryption (HTTPS) for the repository

Re: [tor-dev] Tor Browser Launcher

2013-02-18 Thread Douglas Lucas
You can't even download Ubuntu off Ubuntu.com via SSL. Only HTTP. On 02/19/2013 01:06 AM, adrelanos wrote: Leo Unglaub: Hey, On 2013-02-18 18:33, adrelanos wrote: Right, for such users it wouldn't work anyway, because downloading Tor Browser Launcher from the repository is unencrypted (but