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From: "Jorge Timón" <jtimon@jtimon.cc>
To: Tamas Blummer <tamas@bitsofproof.com>
Cc: Bitcoin Dev <bitcoin-dev@lists.linuxfoundation.org>,
	Libbitcoin <libbitcoin@lists.dyne.org>
Subject: Re: [bitcoin-dev] Libconsensus separated repository (was Bitcoin Core and hard forks)
Date: Sun, 30 Aug 2015 01:30:39 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <CABm2gDrW0hrom2pBavU=6rH5m-+Dhr+NO--_FJ3Co92tT=t45A@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <22CF03CB-7A4B-44D9-8989-22798795BB16@bitsofproof.com>

On Sun, Aug 23, 2015 at 8:42 AM, Tamas Blummer <tamas@bitsofproof.com> wrote:
> I see the huge amount of sweat and love that went into core and it actually
> hurts to see that most is expended in friction and lack of a vision for the
> software architecture.
>
> To be concrete, this was my plan if dealing with the Core code base:
>
> 1) I'd consider the separation of networking and storage as suggested for a
> future extended libconsensus low priority, as their design should be (are)
> dominated by the need of the consensus logic only.
>
> 2) create an API to the consensus+networking+storage service that is not at
> the C++ language level but some scaleable cross-platform remoting, like eg.
> ZeroMQ.
> This API should be minimal and simple, assuming that one fully trusts the
> node answering it. This API would unlock user land development by distinct
> teams with diverse technologies.

I plan to replicate the RPC API (or a subset of it) using ZMQ's
req/rep pattern, but #6103 comes first.

> 3) move the wallet, QT and RPC and other backward compatibility stuff (if
> e.g. there is some mining support) in-top of the new API and into distinct
> source code repositories.

Well, the RPC is the API. For libconsensus, its C API is the API.
We've been talking about separating the wallet and qt to a different
repository for long, but modularization is a prerequisite.


  reply	other threads:[~2015-08-29 23:30 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 28+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2015-07-23 14:30 [bitcoin-dev] Libconsensus separated repository (was Bitcoin Core and hard forks) Jorge Timón
2015-07-23 14:57 ` Milly Bitcoin
2015-07-23 21:02   ` Jorge Timón
2015-07-23 21:30     ` Milly Bitcoin
2015-07-28  6:40 ` Eric Voskuil
2015-07-28  8:47   ` Wladimir J. van der Laan
2015-07-28  9:58   ` Jorge Timón
2015-07-29 20:38     ` Eric Voskuil
2015-07-29 21:46       ` Jorge Timón
2015-08-20  0:53         ` Jorge Timón
2015-08-20  7:14           ` Tamas Blummer
2015-08-20  8:06             ` Jorge Timón
2015-08-20  8:35               ` Tamas Blummer
2015-08-20 17:44                 ` Matt Corallo
2015-08-20 21:26                   ` Tamas Blummer
2015-08-20 21:35                     ` Matt Corallo
2015-08-21  6:46                       ` Tamas Blummer
2015-08-21 19:46                 ` Jorge Timón
2015-08-21 20:07                   ` Eric Lombrozo
2015-08-22 11:04                   ` Tamas Blummer
2015-08-23  1:23                     ` Eric Lombrozo
2015-08-23  2:19                       ` Eric Lombrozo
2015-08-23  6:42                       ` Tamas Blummer
2015-08-29 23:30                         ` Jorge Timón [this message]
2015-08-29 23:25                       ` Jorge Timón
2015-08-29 22:08                     ` Jorge Timón
2015-07-28  8:43 ` Wladimir J. van der Laan
2015-07-28 10:09   ` Jorge Timón

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