From pde at eff.org  Wed May  6 11:39:43 2009
From: pde at eff.org (Peter Eckersley)
Date: Wed, 6 May 2009 11:39:43 -0700
Subject: [ch-dev] Switzerland 0.1.0 is out
Message-ID: <20090506183943.GA22561@tapdance>

Hi all,

Switzerland 0.1.0 is out. 

It includes a number of improvements over 0.0.7, both in terms of usefulness
and stability.  However, I think we'll still be waiting for some of the
features planned for 0.2.0 (especially, a better algorithm for matchingmaking
Alice and Bob's views of flows through NATs, and an option to run some
automatic HTTP and/or P2P tests within the client) before encouraging lots
more people to try it.

Jered has been working on the beginnings of a Windows .exe installer, too.
The first version of that is likely to still depend on other things being
installed on a windows box in order to work (Python, PyWin32, WinPcap) though
in eventually it will make sense to use some combination of py2exe and a MSI
incorporating PyWin32 and WinPcap in order to simplify that for the user.

-- 
Peter Eckersley                            pde at eff.org
Staff Technologist                Tel  +1 415 436 9333 x131
Electronic Frontier Foundation    Fax  +1 415 436 9993


From sebastien at willemijns.com  Thu May  7 05:09:31 2009
From: sebastien at willemijns.com (Sebastien WILLEMIJNS)
Date: Thu, 07 May 2009 14:09:31 +0200
Subject: [ch-dev] Switzerland 0.1.0 is out
Message-ID: <1241698171.24395.1314267181@webmail.messagingengine.com>


On Wed, 6 May 2009 11:39:43 -0700, "Peter Eckersley" <pde at eff.org> said:
> Hi all,
> 
> Switzerland 0.1.0 is out. 
> 

good news, i hope test torrent URLs are displayed when software
starts... because lot of newbies "silly install" software 
and can wait forever ;)


From pde at eff.org  Fri May  8 12:20:36 2009
From: pde at eff.org (Peter Eckersley)
Date: Fri, 8 May 2009 12:20:36 -0700
Subject: [ch-dev] Switzerland 0.1.0 is out
In-Reply-To: <1241698171.24395.1314267181@webmail.messagingengine.com>
References: <1241698171.24395.1314267181@webmail.messagingengine.com>
Message-ID: <20090508192036.GA10307@tapdance>

On Thu, May 07, 2009 at 02:09:31PM +0200, Sebastien WILLEMIJNS wrote:
> 
> On Wed, 6 May 2009 11:39:43 -0700, "Peter Eckersley" <pde at eff.org> said:
> > Hi all,
> > 
> > Switzerland 0.1.0 is out. 
> > 
> 
> good news, i hope test torrent URLs are displayed when software
> starts... because lot of newbies "silly install" software 
> and can wait forever ;)

I don't think we'll have something like this for 0.1.0 (we could have a static
list of test services, but I think a wiki link is notionally better).

The plan for 0.2.0 is to include some "automatic test" options, so you can
test some services just by adding a command line flag (or clicking a button in
the GUI Caden is building :)).  

Implementing those builtin tests should be easy for services (like HTTP or
DNS) where Python or the OS has an easy-to-launch builtin client.

With respect to BitTorrent, can anyone volunteer to help us choose and bundle a
native Python BT client?  I get the impression that there are lots of those
around; we need the one that is simplest, controllable by API, and freest of
security problems.

-- 
Peter Eckersley                            pde at eff.org
Staff Technologist                Tel  +1 415 436 9333 x131
Electronic Frontier Foundation    Fax  +1 415 436 9993