On 02/27/2017 05:02 PM, Eric Voskuil wrote:
>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: Alice Wonder
>
>> Howdy, new to libbitcoin but not new to bitcoin...
>
> Welcome!
>
>> My interest in libbitcoin, I am creating a payment processing system
> ... I can't use BitPay or the others because I don't want to put my
> business at the mercy of another company that can decide they will stop
> processing payments just because they don't like something I am doing.
>
> This is exactly the motivation behind libbitcoin. Web APIs are a
> centralization force that stand to destroy the Bitcoin security model,
> not just for individual users but for all.
>
>> Anyway the way I run servers, I run CentOS 7 ...
>
>> What I have now (don't use, quite alpha packaging) is at
> http://awel.domblogger.net/7/boost-misc/src/repoview/
>
>> I doubt I will contribute any meaningful code to the project but maybe
> when I am done with the spec files, they will be of use to people on RPM
> based systems.
>
> This is great. We use a significant amount of code generation in all
> repos and will eventually generate Debian packaging. If you can
> generalize the CentOS packaging we may be able to incorporate it into
> the build at some point as well.
>
>> Thank you for this project, it solves a lot of things I didn't see a
> way to solve with the "standard" bitcoin-core project.
>
> Great to hear, thanks for the feedback.
>
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>

Just figured out (well this morning) that the release tarballs on github
seem to be old, and that master has much newer versions.

Is it recommended to ignore the "releases" on github and just build from
master?