[tor-reports] gsathya's December

[Sathyanarayanan Gunasekaran]

On Wed, Jan 2, 2013 at 10:25 AM, Damian Johnson <atagar at torproject.org>wrote:

> > I tried that in the beginning, but PySide wouldn't work with that
> properly.
> > It kept blocking for some reason(completion_percent=0 didn't work
> either),
> > so I wrote a custom launcher.
>
> Most likely what happened was that you were directing the log output
> to a file rather than stdout...
>
> https://trac.torproject.org/7677
>
> It would be easy to fix.
>
>
Ah, thanks! I'll try.


>  > It currently works for my use case, but I do want to extend this
> controller
> > to test stem's circuits and events API.
>
> In the long term I'd like to see us develop a python GUI. Our backend
> python support is far better than C++, so we should be able to quickly
> meet and exceed Vidalia (Kamran was able to almost reach feature
> parity over a summer). But that'll take someone who is dedicated to
> seeing us have a GUI that furnishes.
>

Shipping with the TBB? That would involve shipping Python with TBB, which
will probably bloat up TBB more, making it harder to use with GetTor and
such. If this is okay, I'd be happy to polish my app more and pass it on to
whoever wants to develop it.
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