Re: [Bitcoin-development] Announcing the Statoshi fork

[Nelson Castillo <nelsoneci@gmail.com>]

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On Wed, May 7, 2014 at 3:18 PM, Wladimir <laanwj@gmail.com> wrote:

> On Wed, May 7, 2014 at 9:57 PM, Jameson Lopp <jameson.lopp@gmail.com>
> wrote:
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> > I agree that it would be awesome to offer these types of stats with the
> installer; unfortunately the route I've taken has dependencies on several
> other other pieces of software to do all the heavy lifting of stats
> aggregation and chart rendering. I'm assuming that you would not want to
> build any of that processing into Bitcoin Core itself; would you be opposed
> to packaging other software along with the installer?
>
> Depends on just how much stuff it is. The idea is primarily to have an
> installer for running a (wallet-less) node as an OS background
> service.
>
> Having some statistics available would be worth some extra download
> size, otherwise it would be pretty much invisible.
>
> We'd already decided that we would need something like Python for the
> stats service. Implementing things like web services in C++ is just
> not realistic given the time constraints and the great already-written
> code that is out there. As an optional tool it should be external, not
> part of bitcoind itself.
>
> I suppose the chart rendering happens client-side? In that case the
> web service just has to collect and provide the data, and serve static
> html/js files.
>

Is SNMP an option? That way you do not need to implement clients and there
are many tools written.


> Wladimir
>
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