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

[Katya Titov]

Erinn Clark:

> 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!

Works perfectly on x64 Debian 7.2.

Thanks Erinn and all else involved!
-- 
kat