[tahoe-dev] Windwos installation problems

[Zooko Wilcox-O'Hearn]

Thanks for the report, Black Dew.  I'm going to update the install  
docs to more strongly recommend that users use Python 2.5 in  
preference to Python 2.6.  I happen to know, for example from the  
Windows buildbot that we run -- http://allmydata.org/buildbot/ 
waterfall -- that mingw can reliably build modules for Python 2.5.

Would you like to contribute a buildbot?  This would entail letting  
the Tahoe project run builds on your Windows computer so that we can  
track progress of building for Python 2.6 with mingw and/or msvc  
(depending on your system configuration).

Now as to your current problem with pycryptopp -- I suppose this is  
because the one on the testgrid was built (by me) with mingw.  Maybe  
we should try building it with MSVC?  Or, per http://bugs.python.org/ 
issue3308 , perhaps we just need to remove all uses of 'localtime'?   
Uh-oh, grep tells me that there are no instances of 'localtime' in  
_pycryptopp.pyd.  Hm.

Any ideas?  Meanwhile, like I said, I'm going to change http:// 
allmydata.org/source/tahoe/trunk/docs/install.html to guide people to  
install Python 2.5 and not Python 2.6.

Regards,

Zooko