Subject: Re: [Bitcoin-development] 0.8.1 ideas

From: Gregory Maxwell <[email-masked]>
Date: Fri, 15 Mar 2013 12:52:18 -0700

On Fri, Mar 15, 2013 at 10:06 AM, Benjamin Lindner <[email-masked]> wrote:
> This. Software behavior which is not described by the source code should not be considered an integral part of the rule set.
> Any influence of external libraries on the consensus mechanism is unacceptable.

No one thinks its controversial to remove it or that it's a good thing
to have— only that its technically somewhat complicated and risky to
remove it.