[tor-bugs] #21846 [Metrics/Torflow]: BwAuthority can't be run out of the box without manual work

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#21846: BwAuthority can't be run out of the box without manual work
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     Reporter:  davidwf          |      Owner:  aagbsn
         Type:  enhancement      |     Status:  new
     Priority:  Medium           |  Milestone:
    Component:  Metrics/Torflow  |    Version:
     Severity:  Normal           |   Keywords:
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 Currently the bwauthority is quite out of date with the current python
 ecosystem and doesn't play nice in a dev environment.

 The submitted patch makes the following updates:

 1) Removes the cron setup to a separate script (so running setup.sh
 doesn't alter your crontab)
 2) Changes the shell script to use a modern pip instead of peep (peep is
 deprecated and hash checking is incorporated into pip as of version 8.0
 (https://pypi.python.org/pypi/peep/)
 3) Updated dependencies as far as possible (Elixer's last version is 0.7.1
 and is only compatible with SQLAlchemy <= 0.7.8, obvious future
 enhancement to move away from Elixir)
 4) Added a convenience script to kill all the spun up processes
 5) Updated the ReadMe and the .gitignore to reflect these changes.

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