Installation fails with "Python.h: No such file or directory" about sydent

[killua-eu]

Now I get it :) I suggest to document in big fat letters "dont try to use sydent, its futile" in sydent's readme .. stumbled upon the ident server in the vector.im config.json so went straight for getting one, as I try to evaluate the current state of matrix for light production use.

[ara4n]

have filed #22 to fix the doc - thanks for pointing it out!

[ara4n]

typically you really don't need to run a sydent; all it does is map email addresses to matrix ids so people can discover you publically on matrix by your email addres. this only works if you are part of the public cluster of sydents, which a personal instance won't be. we are looking at how to fix this (by replacing sydent) to be decentralised but haven't got there yet.

On 19 Jun 2016, at 11:18, killua-eu [email protected] wrote:

OK, so

add-apt-repository -s "https://matrix.org/packages/debian/ testing main"
gpg --keyserver pgp.mit.edu --recv-keys AD0592FE47F0DF61
apt-get install matrix-synapse nodejs nodejs-legacy npm
apt-get syutil
mkdir -p /opt
cd /opt
git clone https://github.com/matrix-org/sydent.git
cd /opt/sydent
apt install virtualenv
virtualenv env
source env/bin/activate
pip install setuptools_trial mock # this fails
python setup.py test # this fails too
So the first failure is

Failed building wheel for Twisted
Command "/opt/sydent/env/bin/python2 -u -c "import setuptools, tokenize;file='/tmp/pip-build-Fmu_QK/Twisted/setup.py';exec(compile(getattr(tokenize, 'open', open)(file).read().replace('\r\n', '\n'), file, 'exec'))" install --record /tmp/pip-Utbikr-record/install-record.txt --single-version-externally-managed --compile --install-headers /opt/sydent/env/include/site/python2.7/Twisted" failed with error code 1 in /tmp/pip-build-Fmu_QK/Twisted/
Here the full log. sydent.log.txt
My suggestions:

please kindly update the readme for sydent
ideally package up sydent as well
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[killua-eu]

Closing this issue, thanks for the explanation.