> The question is; what does this buy us, and is it worth the potentially huge > amount of time it could take? My gut feeling is we have bigger fish to fry. > There's plenty of work to do just on the core consensus code, making Bitcoin > Core into a competitive wallet as well would be an additional burden.
I don't intend to work on that myself but that's up to the people that want to contribute to that. Once it's a separate project it could either be a big success, or it could slowly wither away. It can have a release cycle separate from the node. Likely faster. The organizational reason to split off the wallet is to get rid of that responsibility (and code) from the bitcoind repo. Maintaining a wallet should not be part of maintaining the core infrastructure. But just deleting it would be unreasonable. > However I may be quite biased, as I am the maintainer of what is primarily a > wallet library :) Hah. I've thought about that migration path as well. >From my experience the main thing people are missing with BitcoinJ is a quick and easy way to set up a wallet as a daemon, to use the functionality from non-java through RPC. But there are other interesting upcoming wallet projects as well, for example CoinVault. Wladimir ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Open source business process management suite built on Java and Eclipse Turn processes into business applications with Bonita BPM Community Edition Quickly connect people, data, and systems into organized workflows Winner of BOSSIE, CODIE, OW2 and Gartner awards http://p.sf.net/sfu/Bonitasoft _______________________________________________ Bitcoin-development mailing list Bitcoin-development@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/bitcoin-development
