[tor-qa] Vidalia standalone bundles for testing (TBB 3.x "mod")

[Colin C.]

On 16/12/13 10:51 PM, Erinn Clark wrote:
> Hi everyone!
> 
> We are accelerating the stable release of the TBB 3.x series because Firefox 17
> ESR is no longer supported. In order to do this we need to make sure we have
> some standalone Vidalia bundles that people can plug in so they are not too
> disoriented by the change. A lot of us have been using the 3.x series for a
> while, but plenty of people have not, and we don't want to upset them.
> 
> I have spent the evening trying to get together a functional batch. I have the
> first pass available, with some known problems. Linux is able to display the
> relay map and show your hops, but I haven't been able to make it work on
> Windows or OSX yet. I would appreciate anyone figuring out what that issue
> might be, but I will also look into it more tomorrow. I assume it is not
> finding the geoip file correctly.
> 
> Here's how to test these:
> 
> 1. Download
> 
> 2. Extract *into your TBB 3.x directory*. This is important. They may work
> outside of it, but it depends a lot on your system libs. I am sure they will
> work *in* it and that is how they are "designed" right now (though longer-term
> that will not be the case). If they work outside of your TBB 3.x directory that
> is merely surprisingly good news. (But try it anyway, for fun.)
> 
> 3. Run the start vidalia script. On Windows, this is Start Vidalia.exe. On OSX
> and Linux it is start-vidalia.sh.
> 
> 4. Let me know what happens!
> 
> Packages: https://people.torproject.org/~erinn/qa/vidalia-standalone-1/
> 
> sha256sums: https://people.torproject.org/~erinn/qa/vidalia-standalone-1/sha256sums-vidalia-standalone.txt.asc
> 
> Turnaround: Let's try to make this a relatively active discussion in the next
> day or so; I know everyone is antsy to get 3.x stable, but there is still much
> to do to make the release happen smoothly.
> 
> If you want to submit patches to me, my repo thus far (it is a MESS but it is
> also almost 3am; forgive me, git gods) is here:
> https://gitweb.torproject.org/erinn/torbrowser.git/shortlog/refs/heads/maint-2.4
> 
> or: git clone -b maint-2.4 https://git.torproject.org/erinn/torbrowser.git
> 
> Thanks everyone!
> Erinn
> 
> 
> 
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Testing: vidalia-standalone-0.2.21-gnu-linux-x86_64-en-US.tar.gz
Platform: Debian Wheezy
Processor: Intel(R) Core(TM) i5-2450M CPU @ 2.50GHz

Notes:
- There is a decent delay between Vidalia stating it is connected and
the onion turning green. During this period, the Tor Browser's log
indicates that tor has received a new control connection, however none
of Vidalia's functionality appears to be available with the exception of
the "Stop Tor" button.

- Works with the new tor-browser-linux64-3.5_en-US.tar.xz (Build 3).


-- 
-Phoul