📅 Original date posted:2011-07-10
🗒️ Summary of this message: A developer questions the use of Berkeley db 4 and Boost in Bitcoin's code and suggests a complete rewrite for better documentation and cleanliness.
📝 Original message:On Sunday, July 10, 2011 6:37:15 PM Michael Offel wrote:
> why Berkeley db 4 is used at all.
Because it's a good tool for the job? Or you mean the version?
Debian stable: 4.8
Gentoo stable: 4.8
Ubuntu LTS : 4.8
> Boost is also an heavy non standard dependency that is an unnecessary
> barrier for new developers.
Boost is pretty much standard C++ nowadays.
> I'm talking about one file per class, no methods and single code line
> longer than a screen page. It should be natural to write code like this
> and I dislike having a lot of rules but the code shows that there is a
> need for such thing.
Blame your text editor if it can't show long lines sanely. The only problem I
see with the style itself is the use of spaces instead of tabs.
> My overall suggestion is to begin a complete rewrite, inspired by the old
> code rather than moving a lot of "known to be somehow functional" around.
There are many rewrites in progress, often with much better designs.
> The official Bitcoin client should be some kind of an reference project
> for other clients and must therefore be extra clean and well documented.
Bitcoin is supposed to be an authorityless project. There is no official.
> *everything else*
Fix it yourself and submit the changes. If they don't get merged, fork.
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