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

[Sherief Alaa]

On Tue, Dec 17, 2013 at 6:51 AM, Erinn Clark <erinn at torproject.org> 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
>

Seems there is a file missing:
https://www.dropbox.com/s/vxz5hfdbzu2nws5/VidaliaStandaloneWinMissingFile.png

This error pops up whether tbb3.5 is on or not.

-- 
Sherief Alaa
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