I personally used "tahoe start/restart -m ../MY-TESTNET/node*" all the time,
to spin up or update a local testgrid while iterating over new code. However,
with the recent switch from "subprocess.Popen(/bin/twistd)" to "import and
call twistd.run()" in scripts/startstop_node.py (yay fewer processes!),
"start -m" broke, and fixing it requires os.fork, which is unavailable on
windows (boo windows!). And I was probably the only one using -m. So in the
interests of uniformity among platforms and simpler code (yay negative code
days!), we're just removing -m from everything. I will start using a little
shell script or something to simulate the removed functionality.
This patch also cleans up CLI-function calling a bit: get the basedir from
the config dict (instead of sometimes from a separate argument), and always
return a numeric exit code.
Specifically, test_runner.CreateNode.test_client failed, because the
os.fork-is-present test decided that --multiple should not be allowed on
windows, even though --multiple works just fine for 'tahoe create-client'.
The only restriction on --multiple is for 'tahoe start' and 'tahoe restart'.
This needs a different approach, probably by cleaning up BasedirMixin. We
should only be withholding --multiple on windows for "start" and
"restart". (we should continue withholding --multiple on all platforms for
"run").
This reverts (git) commit f3adb037ae:
"startstop_node.py: fix "tahoe start -m" by forking before non-final targets"
* don't advertise -m flag on tahoe start/restart/run unless os.fork is
available (i.e. windows)
* test_runner.py: add test to exercise "start/stop/restart -m"
This removes the need to use a locally-built (dependency) bin/twistd, and
removes a big chunk of behavior differences between unix and windows. It
also happens to resolve the "client node probably started" uncertainty.
Might help with #1190, #602, and #71.
fixes#530. I earlier tried this twice (see #530 for history) and then twice rolled it back due to some problems that arose. However, I didn't write down what the problems were in enough detail on the ticket that I can tell today whether those problems are still issues, so here goes the third attempt. (I did write down on the ticket that it would not create site.py or .pth files in the target directory with --multi-version mode, but I didn't explain why *that* was a problem.)
pyflakes pointed out that the exception handler fallback called an un-imported function, showing that the fallback wasn't being exercised.
I'm not 100% sure that this patch is right and would appreciate François or someone reviewing it.
Tahoe CLI commands working on local files, for instance 'tahoe cp' or 'tahoe
backup', have been improved to correctly handle filenames containing non-ASCII
characters.
In the case where Tahoe encounters a filename which cannot be decoded using the
system encoding, an error will be returned and the operation will fail. Under
Linux, this typically happens when the filesystem contains filenames encoded
with another encoding, for instance latin1, than the system locale, for
instance UTF-8. In such case, you'll need to fix your system with tools such
as 'convmv' before using Tahoe CLI.
All CLI commands have been improved to support non-ASCII parameters such as
filenames and aliases on all supported Operating Systems except Windows as of
now.
This patch modifies the regular expression used for verifying of '--node-url'
parameter. Support for accessing a Tahoe gateway over HTTPS was already
present, thanks to Python's urllib.
This handles the case where we upload a new tahoe directory for a
previously-processed local directory, possibly creating a new dircap (if the
metadata had changed). Now we replace the old dirhash->dircap record. The
previous behavior left the old record in place (with the old dircap and
timestamps), so we'd never stop creating new directories and never converge
on a null backup.
These edits were suggested by my watching over Jake Appelbaum's shoulder as he completely ignored/skipped/missed install.html and also as he decided that debian.txt wouldn't help him with basic installation. Then I threw in a few docs edits that have been sitting around in my sandbox asking to be committed for months.
