BitTornado With Changes to Fix the Incompatibility with wxPython








This "fixing" of the BitTornado library was caused by my being unable
to run the latest version 0.3.18 on my Ubuntu 8.04 laptop.




I'd get the following message



  "The wxPython compatibility package is no longer automatically generated
  or actively maintained. Please switch to the wx package as soon as
  possible.  from wxPython.wx import * wxPython is either not installed
  or has not been installed properly."




Googling revealed that some other folks were also having the same
problem.  Presumably the problem can be fixed by removing the
python-wxgtk2.8 package. As it turns out, the latest BitTornado version
0.3.18 is incompatible with the latest wxPython distribution.



Given the popularity of BitTornado, we can be reasonably certain that
its next distribution from the official web site will have fixed this
issue.  In the meantime, I have (hopefully) fixed all of the references
to the wxPython package in this unofficial packaging of the code.  All
of my changes are confined to the following files:







If you are a first-time user of BitTornado, you can download a torrent 
by invoking any of the following:





the last giving you a GUI interface for downloading a torrent.  

The repackaged BitTornado library is available from





  BitTornado-wx-0.3.18.tar.gz





If you run into problems with this directory and you believe that
they are related to my tinkering with the code, please send me email
at kak@purdue.edu with the string "BitTornado" in the subject 
line to get past my procmail filter.




Avinash Kak