From: Gregory Maxwell <gmaxwell@gmail•com>
To: Douglas Huff <dhuff@jrbobdobbs•org>
Cc: bitcoin-development@lists•sourceforge.net
Subject: Re: [Bitcoin-development] Encrypted Wallet Backward Compatibility
Date: Mon, 4 Jul 2011 18:30:12 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <CAAS2fgSNdnT+7qvBRnqMTG3Pnciw+U81GhgaTD9=-7bdpPyiFQ@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <5196CA67-B84A-4413-BE6D-504811EAA954@jrbobdobbs.org>
On Mon, Jul 4, 2011 at 5:18 PM, Douglas Huff <dhuff@jrbobdobbs•org> wrote:
>
> On Jul 4, 2011, at 1:23 PM, Gavin Andresen wrote:
>> RE: breaking backup scripts: if they use the backupwallet RPC
>> command, then they will Just Work.
>
> I'd go a step further and say that, since import/export is planned to get merged at about the same time, intentionally breaking unsafe/badly designed backup mechanisms is actually desirable.
Silently breaking them, not so much.
Or do you think people are going to notice that they've started
backing up a zero byte file?
prev parent reply other threads:[~2011-07-04 22:30 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 13+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2011-07-04 17:52 Matt Corallo
2011-07-04 18:20 ` Luke-Jr
2011-07-04 18:23 ` Gavin Andresen
2011-07-04 20:39 ` Matt Corallo
2011-07-05 1:10 ` Matt Corallo
2011-07-05 2:26 ` Gavin Andresen
2011-07-05 2:45 ` Jeff Garzik
2011-07-10 14:21 ` Matt Corallo
2011-07-10 19:10 ` Pieter Wuille
2011-07-05 11:03 ` Matt Corallo
2011-07-04 20:59 ` Gregory Maxwell
2011-07-04 21:18 ` Douglas Huff
2011-07-04 22:30 ` Gregory Maxwell [this message]
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