Because the unit tests on the VirtualZooko buildslave failed when it took 16 seconds for a process to go away.
Perhaps getting notification after only 5 seconds instead of 20 seconds is desirable, and we should change the unit tests and set this back to 5, but I don't know exactly how to change the unit tests. Perhaps match this particular warning message about the shutdown taking a while and allow the code under test to pass if the only stderr that it emits is this warning.
We're just going to mark unicode in the cli as unsupported for tahoe-lafs-1.3.0. Unicode filenames on the command-line do actually work for some platforms and probably only if the platform encoding is utf-8, but I'm not sure, and in any case for it to be marked as "supported" it would have to work on all platforms, be thoroughly tested, and also we would have to understand why it worked. :-)
Also encode all args to urllib as utf-8 because urllib doesn't handle unicode objects.
I'm not sure if it is appropriate to *assume* utf-8 encoding of cli args. Perhaps the Right thing to do is to detect the platform encoding. Any ideas?
This patch is mostly due to François Deppierraz.
in the recent reconciliation of webopen patches, I wound up adjusting
webopen to 'pass through' the state of the trailing slash on the given
argument to the resultant url passed to the browser. this change
removes the requirement that arguments must be directories, and allows
webopen to be used with files. it also broke the tests that assumed
that webopen would always normalise the url to have a trailing slash.
in fixing the tests, I realised that, IMHO, there's something deeply
awry with the way tahoe handles paths; specifically in the combination
of '/' being the name of the root path within an alias, but a leading
slash on paths, e.g. 'alias:/path', is catagorically incorrect. i.e.
'tahoe:' == 'tahoe:/' == '/'
but 'tahoe:/foo' is an invalid path, and must be 'tahoe:foo'
I wound up making the internals of webopen simply spot a 'path' of
'/' and smash it to '', which 'fixes' webopen to match the behaviour
of tahoe's path handling elsewhere, but that special case sort of
points to the weirdness.
(fwiw, I personally found the fact that the leading / in a path was
disallowed to be weird - I'm just used to seeing paths qualified by
the leading / I guess - so in a debate about normalising path handling
I'd vote to include the /)
I think this is largely attributable to a cleanup patch I'd made
which never got committed upstream somehow, but at any rate various
conflicting changes to webopen had been made. This cleans up the
conflicts therein, and hopefully brings 'tahoe webopen' in line with
other cli commands.
moved the body of webopen out of cli.py into tahoe_webopen.py
made its invocation consistent with the other cli commands, most
notably replacing its 'vdrive path' with the same alias parsing,
allowing usage such as 'tahoe webopen private:Pictures/xti'
