I use the vidalia package on my Mac and I wanted to try this. I'm not an expert but I have Xcode & MacPorts already. I tried downloading the code & building it. It asked for one library I didn't have (which I used MacPorts to get) and then it appeared to compile fine.
However, vidalia did not like it when I modified its torrc as the instructions indicate.
I should add that MacPorts did not have everything they list as dependancies so I assumed that because the compiler did not through an error they were on my machine via Xcode.
I run a bridge all the time and I'd be happy to update it for this.
1 - is the vidalia package you're using new enough? i haven't checked, but when i installed a bridge a few days ago it needed the very latest release of tor.
2 - if you look at the instructions in the other thread, the obfsproxy didn't run in managed mode - it needed to be run separately (which requires changes to the config). see http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3579531 and the related link.
3 - last i heard from tor they were actively developing this so there may be fixes soon.
4 - perhaps it's not so pressing anyway if things are back to normal in iran (i wonder if obfsproxy helped, or if the uptick shown in the link was just natural recoveryg?).
OK, I just got new stuff and tried again. It looks like it's building in the same way. Paying closer attention to the error, I think it's some sort of automagic torrc checker which does not like the new config, as it fails with: "Unrecognized option: Unknown option 'ServerTransportPlugin'. Failing."
I sort of suspect that if I want to run new stuff like obfsproxy, I should be just running tor and not the standalone / no though torbrowser package. Honestly, I haven't put enough thought into this to understand the configuration required to do that. However, Tor is on MacPorts... so I guess I have an evening project for later on this week.
I like to note that https is working again.
Also ssh.
FYI: https and basically every secure Internet protocol was shut down, couple of days ago in Iran. <http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3575029>;