Documenting startTor behaviour #45

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decentral1se · 2023-06-22T15:13:09Z

decentral1se commented

2023-06-22 15:13:09 +00:00

While firing up Tor, I wasn't sure what connectivity was actually doing under the hood until I took a a look at startTor (9beff8a10a/tor/torProvider.go (L484)). Would it be an idea to document the logic of looking at a system Tor / then bundling etc. somewhere?

Can take a run at it.

EDIT: Also, for alternative clients/tools, can connectivity provide bundling or that is something that clients have to organise separately? Unsure how to do that.

While firing up Tor, I wasn't sure what `connectivity` was actually doing under the hood until I took a a look at `startTor` (https://git.openprivacy.ca/openprivacy/connectivity/src/commit/9beff8a10a89d1256bcbb6624c9cf97f4889fdb0/tor/torProvider.go#L484). Would it be an idea to document the logic of looking at a system Tor / then bundling etc. somewhere? Can take a run at it. EDIT: Also, for alternative clients/tools, can `connectivity` provide bundling or that is something that clients have to organise separately? Unsure how to do that.

sarah commented

2023-06-26 17:46:18 +00:00

Would it be an idea to document the logic of looking at a system Tor / then bundling etc. somewhere?

Yeah this should definitely be part of the developer docs. I've created cwtch.im/docs.cwtch.im#9 to track.

can connectivity provide bundling

That is something that tools have to handle. Though we do have some infrastructure for that, see: https://git.openprivacy.ca/cwtch.im/cwtch-ui/src/branch/trunk/fetch-tor.sh

> Would it be an idea to document the logic of looking at a system Tor / then bundling etc. somewhere? Yeah this should definitely be part of the developer docs. I've created https://git.openprivacy.ca/cwtch.im/docs.cwtch.im/issues/9 to track. > can connectivity provide bundling That is something that tools have to handle. Though we do have some infrastructure for that, see: https://git.openprivacy.ca/cwtch.im/cwtch-ui/src/branch/trunk/fetch-tor.sh

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decentral1se commented

2023-07-05 14:15:41 +00:00

Thanks @sarah! Seems like #45 (comment) covers it.

Thanks @sarah! Seems like https://git.openprivacy.ca/openprivacy/connectivity/issues/45#issuecomment-17548 covers it.

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2023-07-05 14:15:41 +00:00

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