This is necessary, as we can't prevent setuptools from respecting any such eggs, therefore we need to respect them in order to maintain consistency. However, we don't normally install any "install_requires" eggs into the source tree root dir.
It isn't actually needed for Tahoe, only for the command-line tools from pyutil. Later I will make an "extras" category within pyutil to specify in a machine-readable way that argparse is not required for pyutil unless you want the command-line tools.
misc/make-version.py has a limitation which prevents it from generating version
stamps from our current darcs history. This limitation has been fixed in
pyutil's "darcsver". Rather than copy the fix from there to
misc/make-version.py, I'm making it so that you have to install pyutil if you
want to automatically generate _version.py files from the current darcs
history.
* use new decentralized directories everywhere instead of old centralized directories
* provide UI to them through the web server
* provide UI to them through the CLI
* update unit tests to simulate decentralized mutable directories in order to test other components that rely on them
* remove the notion of a "vdrive server" and a client thereof
* remove the notion of a "public vdrive", which was a directory that was centrally published/subscribed automatically by the tahoe node (you can accomplish this manually by making a directory and posting the URL to it on your web site, for example)
* add a notion of "wait_for_numpeers" when you need to publish data to peers, which is how many peers should be attached before you start. The default is 1.
* add __repr__ for filesystem nodes (note: these reprs contain a few bits of the secret key!)
* fix a few bugs where we used to equate "mutable" with "not read-only". Nowadays all directories are mutable, but some might be read-only (to you).
* fix a few bugs where code wasn't aware of the new general-purpose metadata dict the comes with each filesystem edge
* sundry fixes to unit tests to adjust to the new directories, e.g. don't assume that every share on disk belongs to a chk file.
because the setuptools "entry points" form asserts that there are
setuptools-visible packages like nevow/zope.interface (i.e. they have .egg-info
metadata). Until very recently, most debian systems did not install this
metadata. Instead, we rely upon the usual debian dependency checking as
expressed in debian/control .
