From: Amir Taaki <zgenjix@yahoo•com>
To: "bitcoin-development@lists•sourceforge.net"
<bitcoin-development@lists•sourceforge.net>
Subject: Re: [Bitcoin-development] Lock protocol version numbers
Date: Wed, 2 Nov 2011 15:58:43 -0700 (PDT) [thread overview]
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Cool thread. I enjoyed reading that :) Thanks for sharing.
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From: Christian Decker <decker.christian@gmail•com>
To: Amir Taaki <zgenjix@yahoo•com>
Cc: "bitcoin-development@lists•sourceforge.net" <bitcoin-development@lists•sourceforge.net>
Sent: Wednesday, November 2, 2011 10:42 PM
Subject: Re: [Bitcoin-development] Lock protocol version numbers
Just for reference: https://github.com/bitcoin/bitcoin/pull/63
The issue resulted in my most useless pull request fixing two variables :-)
I second the use of sub_version_num as a Client and Version identifier.
Regards,
Chris
On Wed, Nov 2, 2011 at 11:33 PM, Amir Taaki <zgenjix@yahoo•com> wrote:
Point taken.
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>About the sub_version_num though. I prefer to let the field by defined clients however they wish, with just a guideline suggestion that IDENTIFIER VERSION is a format they should follow.
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>The idea being that different projects would have different release scheduling schemes and it'd be restrictive to lock people into the popular major.minor system.
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>So for the current bitcoin to find out the version number of other clients (if it was needed), it would have to parse the number from the string:
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>"Satoshi 0.5"
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>Although there would be little reason for this with a sane protocol versioning scheme.
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>If we're agreed then I'll start on that BIP.
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>From: Gavin Andresen <gavinandresen@gmail•com>
>To: Amir Taaki <zgenjix@yahoo•com>
>Sent: Wednesday, November 2, 2011 9:34 PM
>Subject: Re: [Bitcoin-development] Lock protocol version numbers
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>Good idea.
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>Sounds perfect for a BIP....
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>On Wed, Nov 2, 2011 at 5:23 PM, Amir Taaki <zgenjix@yahoo•com> wrote:
>> Hey,
>> Can we lock the version numbers to be the protocol version (which changes
>> rarely) and instead use the sub_version_num field + revision number for
>> individual builds?
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Thread overview: 17+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2011-11-02 21:23 Amir Taaki
2011-11-02 21:32 ` Christian Decker
[not found] ` <CABsx9T0zUCu2RFC0Nc4URMtu060wyHMaebEM87in=NSiNbp=rw@mail.gmail.com>
2011-11-02 22:33 ` Amir Taaki
2011-11-02 22:42 ` Christian Decker
2011-11-02 22:58 ` Amir Taaki [this message]
2011-11-02 22:46 ` Luke-Jr
2011-11-02 22:55 ` Amir Taaki
2011-11-02 23:07 ` Luke-Jr
2011-11-02 23:22 ` Christian Decker
2011-11-03 4:46 ` Jeff Garzik
2011-11-05 14:32 ` Mike Hearn
2011-11-05 14:45 ` Christian Decker
[not found] ` <1320507570.40074.YahooMailNeo@web121017.mail.ne1.yahoo.com>
2011-11-05 15:39 ` Amir Taaki
2011-11-05 16:17 ` Christian Decker
2011-11-05 16:29 ` Luke-Jr
2011-11-05 16:40 ` Amir Taaki
2011-11-05 17:30 ` Jordan Mack
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