[tahoe-dev] tahoe-dev Digest, Vol 37, Issue 23

[Matthew Reinbold]

Hello all,

First time poster. I came upon the Tahoe project a couple of weeks ago 
and thought it would be an ideal fit for sharing sensitive documents via 
the distributed company I run. However, I having difficulty trying to 
get up and running.

I'm on Windows XP and am current with all updates. I followed the setup 
instructions for Windows found here (however, I used the latest versions 
for all available items rather than the specific version numbers):
http://allmydata.org/source/tahoe-lafs/trunk/docs/quickstart.html

After downloading and unzipping all items I attempted to run:
python setup.py build

That downloaded several "eggs" (not familiar with Python) but seemed to 
fail with the error "Unable to find vcvarsall.bat".

Searching Google I first found this page:
http://allmydata.org/pipermail/tahoe-dev/2009-October/003044.html

Downloading the specific versions referenced there continued to fail. 
Further Googling turned up detailed, expanded number of configuration 
details:
http://www.mail-archive.com/tahoe-dev@allmydata.org/msg01587.html

Following that, however, I seemed to have regressed. The error I now get:


C:\tahoe>python setup.py build
Traceback (most recent call last):
   File "setup.py", line 384, in <module>
     **setup_args
   File "C:\Python2-6-2\lib\distutils\core.py", line 126, in setup
     dist.parse_config_files()
   File "C:\Python2-6-2\lib\distutils\dist.py", line 374, in 
parse_config_files
     parser.read(filename)
   File "C:\Python2-6-2\lib\ConfigParser.py", line 286, in read
     self._read(fp, filename)
   File "C:\Python2-6-2\lib\ConfigParser.py", line 482, in _read
     raise MissingSectionHeaderError(fpname, lineno, line)
ConfigParser.MissingSectionHeaderError: File contains no section headers.
file: C:\Python2-6-2\lib\distutils\distutils.cfg, line: 1
'{{{\n'

Did I do something wrong to copy and paste the contents of the 
distutils.cfg shown on that final web page? The page is from last summer 
- is there an easy way of getting Tahoe running on a Windows machine?

One of the biggest needs is to have the install process as simple as 
possible if I am going to get the principals on board to using Tahoe. If 
installation on a Linux based system that much easier would it make 
sense to create a VM with Tahoe already installed and just have them run 
that image on their machine in something like Virtual Box?

Matthew Reinbold
Creative Principal, Vox Pop Design, http://voxpopdesign.com

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> The Windows buildbot was contributed by allmydata.com and it has gone
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> Could anyone run a Windows buildbot for us? Your Windows machine
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