This commit updates the main README.md and docs/README.md files to
replace the references to the now dead btcgui project with the
Windows-only Paymetheus project.
While here, it also updates some information to make it more current and
accurately describe the current status.
Now that Go 1.6 has been released, update the required Go version in the
README to 1.5 and add Go 1.6 to the configurations tested by TravisCI.
Also, while here, update the Go 1.4 and 1.5 versions tested by TravisCI
to the latest point releases.
This commit adds an additional step to the README.md install section to
run the go version command and check the version so people that are
installing it for the first time and ensure they are running a high
enough version and have GOROOT and GOPATH set correctly.
This commit updates the install command under the Installation section in
README.md to include all subdirectories thereby including the utilities
such as addblock and btcctl.
It was pointed out in #76 that if you arrived to the Update section
of the README without seeing the Installation section, the requirement for
Go 1.2 is easy to miss. This commit builds the requirement in the
Installation section and adds it to the Updating section as well to
hopefully make it more noticable.
This commit modifies btcd to run cleanly as a Windows service. btcd is
intended to be a long running process that stays synchronized with the
bitcoin block chain and provides chain services to multiple users. It
follows that a service is the best option on Windows for this
functionality.
A few key points are:
- Supports graceful shutdown via the service stop/shutdown commands
- Integrates cleanly with the Windows event log
- Adds a new /s flag that can be used to install/remove/start/stop the
service
One outstanding issue is that the application data directory is currently
user specific which means, by default, if you start btcd as a user, the
same data won't be used as when it's running as a service. This needs to
be resovled. The most likely approach will be to put all data into the
common appdata directory Windows provides, but it will require some
additional work to deal with permissions properly as user processes can't
write there by default.
Closes#42.
This commit is a rather large one which implements transaction pool and
relay according to the protocol rules of the reference implementation.
It makes use of btcchain to ensure the transactions are valid for the
block chain and includes several stricter checks which determine if they
are "standard" or not before admitting them into the pool and relaying
them.
There are still a few TODOs around the more strict rules which determine
which transactions are willing to be mined, but the core checks which
are imperative (everything except the all of the "standard" checks really)
to operate as a good citizen on the bitcoin network are in place.
