On 7/10/12 6:18 PM, Damian Johnson wrote:
On APAF (anonymous python application framework) GSoc project, to build cross-platform Windows, OSX, Linux applications including Tor there is the use of Twisted+Cyclone.
I'm still not clear though - what is the advantage of providing Onionoo as a hidden service? We shouldn't add dependencies, especially on a new project like APAF, without clear and substantial benefits.
The Tor Hidden Service support of APAF is just a "small part" of what it does provide.
At first it does provide you an environment to build a Desktop Applications, with an easy-build-system integrating Tor and nicely looking UI elements for Windows and OSX, including an embedded browser.
So basically if you would like to make a desktop application including Onionoo & Atlas together to provide an end-user an application that he can download to query/search/analyze the Consensus, APAF it's a good choice. If you just need to do it for a single application that does not need to be installed and/or distributed hundreds/thousands of time, then the APAF framework may not be the right choice.
-naif