TGS requires the following python modules:
To be able to run TheGlobalSquare on Debian and derivatives you just need to install those dependencies:
sudo apt-get install python-m2crypto python-qt4 pyqt4-dev-tools python-netifaces python-configobj
Also:
sudo apt-get install git
if you don't have git.
Create a tgs folder on your computer. Replace /path/to/tgs with wherever your tgs folder is, then:
cd /path/to/tgs
git clone --recursive https://github.com/whirm/tgs-core.git
git clone https://github.com/whirm/tgs-pc.git
Python will need to know where tgs-core is:
export PYTHONPATH=$PYTHONPATH:/path/to/tgs/tgs-core
Next, build the UI. You'll need pyrcc4 and pyuic4 which come with PyQt (pyqt4-dev-tools):
cd /path/to/tgs/tgs-pc/tgs_pc; ./build_resources.sh
This script needs to run whenever the UI is updated (ie when you git pull into tgs-pc). To start the app:
cd /path/to/tgs/tgs-pc; ./tgs
- The version of python that comes with OS X will probably not work. Download and install an official python build such as 2.7.3 per this page.
- You may need to link /Library/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/Current/bin/python to /usr/bin/python.
- The PyQtX installer may be missing pyrcc4 which means tgs_pc/build_resources.sh will not work. PyQt4 must be built from source at this time.
- The version of sqlite3 that comes with OS X may not support the FTS4 extension.
Download and install homebrew, then
brew install sqlite - The tgs.osx script will tell OS X to find the homebrew version of libsqlite3.dylib and then execute the normal tgs script.
Before starting the app, you will need to execute build_resources.sh from inside the tgs_pc directory once and every time any file in the ui/ dir gets updated by you or by a git pull.
Cheers.
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192707 +eviy the community/community.py file (in the chat-demo) is kinda the main code for handling the messages that dispersy disseminates
192811 +eviy this file has a method called _initialize_meta_messages where all supported messages are defined
192825 +eviy in the demo only one message exists 'text'
192911 +eviy there are appropriate 'create' 'chec' and 'on_incoming' methods to handle the 'text' message, each is given as a parameter in _initialize_meta_messages
192934 +eviy if you want to play around, you can add some messages that may or may not be usefull
193028 +eviy there are several message policies that describe how dispersy should disseminate the message and to who'm. also if someone needs permission to create it, etc
193126 +eviy http://www.scribd.com/doc/81170037/Boudewijn-Dispersy-Documentation-DRAFT-2010
193158 +eviy this is a a year old document that gives the basics of these policies
193204 +eviy but it is outdated :(
193222 +eviy but it may give an idea of what is and what isn't possible
193516 +eviy dispersy is from the QLectives project. soon there will be a new deliverable document that is much more up to date
193531 +eviy but it hasn't been released yet :(
175753 +eviy whirm: you can run 'python dispersy/crypto.py' to create fresh public/private pairs
175851 +eviy whirm: you copy the public key (they are HEX encoded) and put it in ChatCore.dispersy
175904 +eviy whirm: replace 'public_key = "3081a7301006072a8648ce3d020...' with the new key
The icons used in this app are copied from the Oxygen's KDE icon set.