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

[thomasV]

Hi ,here is my quick answer:


Philippe Froidevaux wrote:

> Hi Circle's Developpers,
>
> I have some basic question about Circle.
>
> Network:
> - does Circle work behind a NAT ? 

yes, at least on linux

> - 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. 

yes

> - 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. 

I do not understand what you mean by that...
does your question refer to the DHT queries,
or to the process of downloading a file?

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

I do not know either.
I mean, I know very well what circle does, but
I do not understand your terminology.

> 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. 

well, I say on the web that it works for some people,
because that is the case.

Here is the link to GTK that I put on the homepage:
http://www.dropline.net/gtk/download.php
did you try to install it, along with pygtk?

> 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.