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Author: mlmikael
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To: Eric Voskuil
CC: libbitcoin
Subject: Re: [Libbitcoin] How mature for use is version2 now?
On 2015-05-05 00:18, Eric Voskuil wrote:
> 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.


Aha, so all node use must still be done with version 1?;

As it looks, when will version2's server stack be released?

The upgraded high-performance storage backend implemented last year is
only for v2 and on right?

Thanks again for your awesome work with LB!