:: Re: [Libbitcoin] ABI/API stability
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Skribent: Amir Taaki
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Til: libbitcoin
Nye-emner: [Libbitcoin] Visual Studio Builds
Emne: Re: [Libbitcoin] ABI/API stability
Yes go for it. Feel free to make breaking changes.
Just if you can update SX if you make some changes so the utils keep
working. Feel free to ask me stuff if needed.

On 28/03/14 21:43, William Swanson wrote:
> Does the libbitcoin project provide any ABI or API stability
> guarantees at this point? Up to now, all my changes have been
> backwards-compatible additions. Now, however, I would like to make a
> few breaking API changes to the obelisk client library.
>
> Specifically, I am trying to use zeromq to communicate between
> elements of my own program, but the zmq_context object is hidden
> inside the fullnode_interface object. This is bad, since zeromq
> context is something that needs to be created on the outside and
> passed in.
>
> Also, the polling methodology used in the client library is... not so
> good. In the current system, the update() method needs to be called on
> a regular basis, like once every 10 seconds, to check for new
> messages. This is inefficient and wrong. The right way to do it is to
> have the main loop sleep on the incoming sockets, waking up only when
> activity occurs. Fixing this will involve somehow exposing the zeromq
> sockets to the client code. We are a mobile app, so this sort of thing
> matters to us for battery life.
>
> -William
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