Jeff Garzik [ARCHIVE] on Nostr: 📅 Original date posted:2011-08-10 🗒️ Summary of this message: Proposal to ...
📅 Original date posted:2011-08-10
🗒️ Summary of this message: Proposal to split the Bitcoin client into separate executables: bitcoind (daemon), bitcoin(-qt) (GUI), and bitcoincl (RPC command line).
📝 Original message:On Wed, Aug 10, 2011 at 5:36 AM, John Smith <witchspace81 at gmail.com> wrote:
> 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).
Seems reasonable to me.
--
Jeff Garzik
exMULTI, Inc.
jgarzik at exmulti.com
🗒️ Summary of this message: Proposal to split the Bitcoin client into separate executables: bitcoind (daemon), bitcoin(-qt) (GUI), and bitcoincl (RPC command line).
📝 Original message:On Wed, Aug 10, 2011 at 5:36 AM, John Smith <witchspace81 at gmail.com> wrote:
> 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).
Seems reasonable to me.
--
Jeff Garzik
exMULTI, Inc.
jgarzik at exmulti.com