John Smith [ARCHIVE] on Nostr: 📅 Original date posted:2011-08-10 🗒️ Summary of this message: The proposal ...

📅 Original date posted:2011-08-10
🗒️ Summary of this message: The proposal suggests separating the headless daemon from the UI executable, making it possible to build the command line RPC client without building the server or UI.
📝 Original message:On Wed, Aug 10, 2011 at 10:14 AM, Matt Corallo <bitcoin-list at bluematt.me>wrote:

> I would argue its less clear for the user. Instead of opening either
> bitcoind or bitcoin to get RPC or GUI, now you have to open bitcoin and
> bitcoind or bitcoincl and bitcoind. Now, obviously bitcoin and
> bitcoincl can open bitcoind for you, but I think adding more executables
> complicates things for little clear advantage.
>

UI would obviously still have RPC functionality with -server. I don't mean
dropping that. The UI links both the UI and the network code (for now, until
this is separated out and the preferred UI<->core communication method is
through RPC).

I just mean that the *headless* daemon is separate from the UI executable,
which is the case for any other sane client/server-based program in
existence, from bittorrent nodes to game servers.

It would also make it possible to build the command line RPC client
(bitcoin-cl) *without* building the server or UI. Useful if you want to
remotely control a Bitcoin daemon but not want to build it locally.

JS
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