I think doublec figured out exactly which bitcoin I built from.
I hadn't used github nor git itself before so just grabbed tarball.
Then later a tarball of another newer bitcoin.
Now that bitcoin has included the -qt, I think it is probably best to fork from latest bitcoin, rename to devcoin which I hadn't been able to do in the past but doublec told me how to do it, then start trying to get all the changes we made to turn bitcoin into devcoin back in, this time with git's tracking helping us keep track.
A diff of the current devcoin against the bitcoin version doublec figured out as its origin should ensure we see all the changes that were made so we don't forget something; at first making alt coins was simple and I did it so often I knew offhand the few places one needs to change. But devcoin ended up running around all over the place chasing down all places where cents or minimum fees were mentions and figuring out which of the two to use; then also had a few fixes added latet like the anti dust-spam fee.
I guess its time to go try to actually make this new fork of bitcoin, lets see if I can manage to do that...
EDIT:
[email protected]:knotwork/devcoin.git BUT!!! WARNING!!! IT IS NOT DEVCOIN *YET* !!!
I need to figure how to put a warning on it, I'll start by trying to modify the README and pushing it back. People have to realsie it is really just a recent bitcoin that is about to hopefully get turned into a new latest devcoin.
Ideally we should try to do the fixes in such a way that one doesn't have to run around all over the place to turn bitcoin into devcoin, maybe not go so far as multicoin did where there is an actual runtime configuration file that makes it one type of coin or another, but maybe a compile-time similar concentration of the differences into one handy place where you define the coin type or something. As we will see as we go along with this that the changes are all over the place by now. Especially in the GUI interface where the name of the coin as visible to end-users needs to change.
So we should probably try to make it in a way that pretty much any of the alt chains could easily use the same code just by changing a few key things in a central file. Heck maybe if we do it right we could even get Gavin to pull it back into mainline bitcoin, since if it is done with compile-time defines it should still result in mainline bitcoin when those defines are not set to make it some other type of coin.
-MarkM-