From: "Luke-Jr" <luke@dashjr.org>
To: bitcoin-development@lists.sourceforge.net
Subject: Re: [Bitcoin-development] Encrypted Wallet Backward Compatibility
Date: Mon, 4 Jul 2011 14:20:07 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <201107041420.08995.luke@dashjr.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1309801974.3423.80.camel@Desktop666>
On Monday, July 04, 2011 1:52:53 PM Matt Corallo wrote:
> There were several suggestions of renaming wallet.dat for encrypted
> wallets. Obviously this has many advantages and disadvantages. It
> breaks backup scripts,
It shouldn't. Backup scripts should make a copy with the JSON-RPC call.
What about changing the format of wallet.dat to something that triggers an
error in the old clients? ie, maybe a dummy crafted-to-make-old-versions-
complain file that simply means "use ewallet.dat"?
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2011-07-05 15:27 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 13+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2011-07-04 17:52 [Bitcoin-development] Encrypted Wallet Backward Compatibility Matt Corallo
2011-07-04 18:20 ` Luke-Jr [this message]
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
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