On Fri, Aug 8, 2014 at 1:38 PM, Mike Hearn <m...@plan99.net> wrote: > I'd like to see a mechanism whereby a Bitcoin node can delegate processing > of unknown messages to an external process, so a P2P node can be composed > out of separated programs, but such a service would be indistinguishable at > the network layer from one provided by Bitcoin Core itself, so a service bit > would be appropriate for those.
This diverges from the topic but seems like a good idea to me in general, not so much as replacement for jgarzik's proposal. Something like `getutxos` or this proposal could be implemented as an external application or script, instead of having to integrate everything into bitcoind. Bitcoind would need a local interprocess message bus for that, and would need to act as router for messages from/to the P2P network. ZeroMQ seems like a good choice for that. That's not completely crazy as there are already plans to add zeromq as an optional dependency for notifications [1]. [1] https://github.com/bitcoin/bitcoin/pull/4594 Wladimir ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Want fast and easy access to all the code in your enterprise? Index and search up to 200,000 lines of code with a free copy of Black Duck Code Sight - the same software that powers the world's largest code search on Ohloh, the Black Duck Open Hub! Try it now. http://p.sf.net/sfu/bds _______________________________________________ Bitcoin-development mailing list Bitcoin-development@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/bitcoin-development
