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Important Stuff!

Module Dependencies

TGS requires the following python modules:

Ubuntu/Debian Notes

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

OS X Notes

  1. 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.
  2. You may need to link /Library/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/Current/bin/python to /usr/bin/python.
  3. 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.
  4. The version of sqlite3 that comes with OS X may not support the FTS4 extension. Download and install homebrew, then brew install sqlite
  5. The tgs.osx script will tell OS X to find the homebrew version of libsqlite3.dylib and then execute the normal tgs script.

Building The UI

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.

Want to help?

Join us at the #tgs IRC channel on chat.freenode.net.

Some info that may be interesting to you fellow developer...

Extract from a chat with eviy:

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 :(

About crypto keys:

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

Notes about the icons used

The icons used in this app are copied from the Oxygen's KDE icon set.

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