Thank you very much, Zooko, for your detailed reply and assistance. I was in the process of slowly untangling this myself--for example, I installed the correct version of twisted and MingGW, and got things to compile a bit further... but your new table will, I hope, greatly speed up the process!
I did notice the recommendation for 2.6, but it does say 2.7 is OK. Since I need 2.7 for other things, I was trying to avoid installing 2.6 and possibly introducing other conflicts.
Thanks again. I'll keep you posted! Cheers, Joe Zooko O'Whielacronx wrote the following on 2:59 PM:
Dear Joseph Cusumano: Welcome! Thank you for the bug report. The problem you are having is because there are some binary packages required by Tahoe-LAFS and we (or the maintainers of those packages) provide those packages for Python 2.6 but not for Python 2.7 on Windows, and you don't have a compiler installed (which would automatically build those binary packages from source). Did you not notice the part of quickstart.html that said: "On Windows, we recommend the use of Python v2.6"? :-) Maybe we should state this more strongly. The fact is, we recommend that version because any other version will not work unless you have a compiler installed on your system. :-) However, PenguinOfDoom from the Twisted channel on IRC has just kindly supplied us with binary packages for Python 2.7 for Win32 (but not for Win64). I just uploaded those to our server and rebuilt the README.html, so this matrix now has a row of filled-in packages for Python 2.7 on Win32: http://tahoe-lafs.org/source/tahoe-lafs/deps/tahoe-lafs-dep-eggs/README.html (You can inspect the current README.html and compare it to README-old.html, which is a copy that I just made of README.html before updating it so you could see what it looked like back when your setup attempt failed.) http://tahoe-lafs.org/source/tahoe-lafs/deps/tahoe-lafs-dep-eggs/README-old.html So if this works, the setup you attempted should actually succeed (after downloading these binaries from our server), and if it does then we can update the quickstart.html to explain that Windows users really need to use Python 2.7, unless they have a working compiler installed on your system. Please let us know how it goes! Regards, Zooko
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