📅 Original date posted:2018-06-26
📝 Original message:matejcik via bitcoin-dev <bitcoin-dev at lists.linuxfoundation.org> writes:
> BIP174 is a ad-hoc format, simple to parse by hand; but that results
> in _having to_ parse it by hand. In contrast, protobuf has a huge
> collection of implementations that will do the job of sorting record
> types into relevant struct fields, proper delimiting of records, etc.
seems a bit overkill for how simple the format is, and pulling in a
large dependency just for this is a bit silly. Although making it
protobuf-compatible is an interesting idea, but I fear would be more
work than is worth? I haven't looked closed enough at the protobuf
encoding to be sure.
> ...while at the same time, implementing "protobuf-based-BIP174" by
> hand is roughly equally difficult as implementing the current BIP174.
as a data point, I was able to build a simple serializer[1] in about an
afternoon. I would much prefer to use this lib in say, clightning (my
original goal), without having to have the larger protobuf dependency.
Cheers,
[1] https://github.com/jb55/libpsbt
--
https://jb55.com
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