On 05/01/2015 04:09 AM, mlmikael wrote:
> Hi Eric,
>
> Thank you very much for your response -
>
> What's the motivation for version3?

Major version increments are a consequence of breaking changes to
non-deprecated APIs. We are planning to introduce changes to improve the
safety and ease-of-use of serialization code and to limit the use of
sentinel instances. This is part of work in progress to evolve the
libbitcoin-blockchain implementation to support libbitcoin-protocol.
That is an effort to improve the privacy of the current
libbitcoin-server (obelisk) protocol.

> (And the motivation for version2 over version1 was just that version1
> was to some extent improvised, like any library and API is, and ideas of
> how to do things better, cleaner, faster lead to v2 right?)

The version2 increment was the result of the isolation of
libbitcoin-blockchain and libbitcoin-node from libbitcoin. This was
designed to decouple server and client libraries. At the same time it
was the result of the rewrite of SX (v1) as BX (v2). The version2
branches of the server stack (blockchain, node, server) have yet to be
released.

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> Best regards
>
>
> On 2015-04-29 22:17, Eric Voskuil wrote:
>> Hi Mlmikael,
>>
>> libbitcoin/version2 is in very mature. There is a release pending and no
>> interface changes planned on the branch. As a rule we try not to make
>> breaking interface changes without a major version change.
>>
>> There is no reason to go with libbitcoin/version1 unless you are
>> building spesmilo/sx, spesmilo/obelisk or some other library dependent
>> on the older API.
>>
>> libbitcoin/master is our staging area, libbitcoin/version2 is
>> recommended for production work.
>>
>> e
>>
>>
>> On 04/29/2015 04:20 AM, mlmikael wrote:
>>> Hi!
>>>
>>> The new LibBitcoin version that all energy has gone to the past year or
>>> so, how mature for use is it now, as in how much will its interfaces
>>> change and how stable are its internals?
>>>
>>> (Or would you rather go with version1 just because of some reason, but
>>> then what's the downside?)
>>>
>>> The recommended method for download is git clone
>>> https://github.com/libbitcoin/libbitcoin.git; git checkout version2 ?
>>>
>>> Thank you very much!
>>> Mlmikael
>>>
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