[circle] short technical questions about Circle, and info about win32

[Philippe Froidevaux]

Hi Circle's Developpers,

I have some basic question about Circle.

Network:
- does Circle work behind a NAT ?
- does Circle work behind a firewall ? Some p2p apps are able to choose 
a remote node as front-end and so work across a firewall.
- does Circle manage nodes localisation ? I mean, if a set of node hold 
an information, the application will get it from the node closest to me.

P2P:
- does Circle manage DHT replications, in the way of Pastry and Past ?


And a short information : you say somewhere on the Circle web page that 
Circle should work on MS-Windows. It doesn't, because you are using GTK, 
and GTK is not implemented on Win32.

C:\Documents and Settings\froidevp\Desktop>c:\Python23\python.exe 
Circle-0.41c.pyw
Traceback (most recent call last):
 File "circle", line 133, in ?
   daemon.Circle_daemon().run('no-fork\n')
 File "c:\temp\tmpm5yahv\circlelib\daemon.py", line 210, in run
   from ui_gtk import circle_gtk
 File "c:\temp\tmpm5yahv\circlelib\ui_gtk\circle_gtk.py", line 20, in ?
   import gtk
ImportError: No module named gtk

There is some GTK port for win32, download here : 
http://www.gimp.org/~tml/gimp/win32/downloads.html. But there is no 
Python modules. A better choice would be to use wxWindows (and thus 
wxPython), a stable and powerfull GUI. Bittorrent use wxPython, for example.


regards,
Philippe.

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