Anyway, do whatever you want, its not going to work and Im not going to help code pieces of the core client to work with it, as the pool does a lot more than you think it does. It is also a hub for adding orphan features.
I'm not sure who was the target of the answer, or if i understand the position of everybody right, so here are only my thoughts:
My interest in offering an alternative to the current pool (software) comes from the requests heard over the last month (it is a todo in reddit, too). While I'm not really sure what the personal reasons for these requests are in detail, it sounded like a reasonable request to have more pools available, as the coin grows. That started my interest here.
Now we could use the current pool software for more pools, but there are points that might have stopped others from using it already:
- It is windows only, which excludes the large group of linux/unix admins (my personal reason)
- It contain a lot of additional features, that a second pool doesn't need, or even shouldn't have (only the main pool should have the orphan letters)
- Some might be put off my other factors, like a personal distaste of the UI system (mixed bag for me. For me, it is to JS heavy. But it works)
For me, the current short downtime have no meaning in all of this, as I started looking into the topic shortly before I wrote the "Idea for two proposals" topic in the Forum (
http://forum.biblepay.org/index.php?topic=79.0) 10 days ago. I do not want to replace the current pool, or anything like that, for me it is only an additional option for biblepay, that might help in making it more attractive to more people.
It is clear that another pool software will need a lot of special code. My plan at the moment is writing a bridge that requires NO changes on the client, only on the server side. To understand the required code for that, I'm digging deep into the current pool software and other external pool software.
Indeed, that will require do understand the current pool better, but I hope that I will be allowed to asked some stupid questions in the process, as I really do not want to "bring the current pool down" or anything
Hope that made it a little bit more clear, and there is no bad blood about that topic, as I do not want to create any discrepancies with my work here.