John Smith [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 Bitcoin client into three separate executables: bitcoind (daemon), bitcoin(-qt) (GUI), and bitcoincl (RPC command line). Advantages include clearer user experience and simplified main functions.
📝 Original message: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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