[Bitcoin-development] Change to multiple executables?

Jeff Garzik jgarzik at exmulti.com
Wed Aug 10 21:37:41 UTC 2011


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.

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Jeff Garzik
exMULTI, Inc.
jgarzik at exmulti.com




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