On 6/27/12 12:05 PM, Bernd wrote: > 2012/6/27 Maxim Kammerer <m...@dee.su>: > >> but that requires some >> foresight > > It needs help from the Tor devs. For example Is there a fixed ftp or > http address where I can always get the latest stable tor.exe (only > the naked .exe file without installer)?
There's a ticket on Tor's Trac to do something similar: https://trac.torproject.org/projects/tor/ticket/5923 This is a requirement also to automate APAF build dependency setup, that currently have to follow different procedures: https://raw.github.com/mmaker/APAF/devel/docs/source/build_win32.rst https://raw.github.com/mmaker/APAF/devel/docs/source/build_osx.rst However i agree that it maybe also valuable to have a release by Tor Project of a pure naked Tor binary, statically compiled for all platform (Windows, Linux, OSX), that's valuable for third party integration, always available in the same path as a "-latests" version. > >> and competence. > > Please show us the code of *your* competent solution for a portable > Tor-using software on an USB key that can simply be plugged into any > Windows, Linux or Mac PC and then just works. We could all profit from > it. Static linking and/or bundling a needed runtime environment is > *not* a sign of incompetence, its a result of necessity. Even Tor.exe > itself contains some statically linked 3rd party stuff. Regarding the strict requirement to keep TorHS key on filesystem and consequent inability to protect the private key, please have a look at https://trac.torproject.org/projects/tor/ticket/5976 . You may find interesting for your development of new TorChat . You know well which are the difficulties in making a third party software incorporating Tor. So i expect that a certain part of your effort could be on working on Tor's tickets and codes to make it easier also for others to make Tor's based applications :-)) -naif _______________________________________________ tor-talk mailing list tor-talk@lists.torproject.org https://lists.torproject.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/tor-talk