On Sun, May 13, 2012 at 09:55:36AM +0200, Michael Rogers wrote: > Hi all, > > Here are a few notes I made while trying out version 1.8.2 of > Tahoe-LAFS. I thought a newbie's perspective on the setup process > might be useful. I apologise if any of these are out of date, they're > from last September. > > 1. On Ubuntu, 'python setup.py build' fails unless the python-dev > package is installed. > > 2. quickstart.rst says "verify that the executable tool prints out the > right version number", but what's the right number? It prints several. > > 3. running.rst recommends connecting to the public test grid, but the > TestGrid wiki page says there's no longer a public gateway. I wasn't > sure whether I needed a gateway (apparently not?). > > 4. The client's welcome page has scary red warning about not being > connected to a helper. I wasn't sure whether I needed a helper > (apparently not?). > > 5. There weren't enough servers in the test grid to upload a file, so > I had to change shares.happy to 4. > > 6. Download URIs are too long to paste into emails. > > 7. I couldn't find a nice way to shut down the client. > > 8. After restarting the client, I couldn't find the URI of the file I > uploaded in the first session. > > 9. I want a pony. > > These are all minor points but I thought I'd better share them since > that's what I advise other people to do. :-) > > Cheers, > Michael
These are absolutely most help and fantastic. Please contact me off list so I can work with you to create tickets for these. Also on a side note, I am really interested in the Briar Project. Cheers, Patrick
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