From: John Smith <witchspace81@gmail•com>
To: Bitcoin Dev <bitcoin-development@lists•sourceforge.net>
Subject: [Bitcoin-development] Change to multiple executables?
Date: Wed, 10 Aug 2011 09:36:05 +0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <CAJNQ0sudgAnr9hMUMt8grSNTYswunyNnp25Uzw5t17ucxTBoGA@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
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All,
In the current mainline client everything is lugged into one executable
(with an optional daemon-only one). I think this is a bad idea for various
reasons, and would propose something like:
- bitcoind: bitcoin daemon
- bitcoin(-qt): bitcoin GUI executable
- bitcoincl: bitcoin RPC command line
By default, all three would be built. In non-GUI mode, only bitcoind and
bitcoincl are built (the names are obviously open for discussion).
Advantages:
- It is more clear to the user. One command, one function.
- It simplifies the main functions.
- The UI would no longer double-function as daemon. It is a waste of
memory to link the UI libs if you only want to run a background process.
- The UI and daemon would no longer double-function as RPC call. Why load
the code for UI and network if you just want to send a single command over
JSONRPC? This would also prevent accidentally launching the daemon/UI
locally if you just want to send a command and forget to give an argument.
JS
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next reply other threads:[~2011-08-10 9:36 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 26+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2011-08-10 9:36 John Smith [this message]
2011-08-10 10:14 ` Matt Corallo
2011-08-10 10:26 ` John Smith
2011-08-10 10:43 ` Pieter Wuille
[not found] ` <CAJNQ0ssWeU2vgR8XmCyGiZ3UHPv=zjLZEKVM=gqP0ozSC7Wmiw@mail.gmail.com>
2011-08-10 13:18 ` John Smith
2011-08-10 16:49 ` Gavin Andresen
2011-08-10 17:45 ` John Smith
2011-08-10 18:41 ` Gavin Andresen
2011-08-10 19:32 ` Andy Parkins
2011-08-10 19:57 ` Jeff Garzik
2011-08-10 21:13 ` Andy Parkins
2011-08-10 21:35 ` Jeff Garzik
2011-08-10 22:38 ` Andy Parkins
2011-08-11 3:20 ` Jeff Garzik
2011-08-11 5:47 ` Andy Parkins
2011-08-11 11:45 ` Joel Joonatan Kaartinen
2011-08-11 12:01 ` Christian Decker
2011-08-11 14:04 ` Andy Parkins
2011-08-11 12:11 ` Mike Hearn
2011-08-11 13:51 ` Andy Parkins
2011-08-11 12:19 ` John Smith
2011-08-11 13:08 ` Pieter Wuille
2011-08-10 18:43 ` Luke-Jr
2011-08-10 19:48 ` Jeff Garzik
2011-08-10 21:37 ` Jeff Garzik
2011-08-11 13:50 ` Pieter Wuille
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