[tor-dev] Reproducibility of Pluggable Transports python.msi

[Jeremy Rand]

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On 09/07/2015 12:29 AM, David Fifield wrote:
> Way way back when pluggable transports were first integrated into
> Tor Browser, we tried compiling Python and it was too problematic
> to be worth it. Here is the comment you want to read:
> 
> https://trac.torproject.org/projects/tor/ticket/9444#comment:18 
> https://trac.torproject.org/projects/tor/ticket/9444#comment:20
> 
> Those comments are two years old now. Maybe things have changed and
> it's easier to cross-compile for Windows now. If it's something you
> have expertise with, it'd be great if you tried it!
> 

Hi David, thanks for the reply.  I don't have any particular expertise
with this myself (I've done some reproducible build work using Gitian
but it was all fairly standard C++ code), but I'm aware that the
Bitcoin wallet Armory is attempting to do Gitian builds for Windows,
and a lot of their code is Python.  I've pointed their reproducible
build specialist to this thread.  Armory's progress on this isn't very
complete yet (they're still working through bugs introduced by
cross-compiling Python), but maybe they'll learn something from your
notes, and maybe they'll be able to move things forward.

Cheers,
- -Jeremy Rand
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