I see activity in regards of the addition of the coin in other exchanges, but we miss a bit of updates on the technical side. Is the Github page up to date?
Thank you in advance.
XBC runs autoreconf and runs configure in Windows Ubuntu Bash without error. The work on the other coin mentioned helps us, it is the first coin that I am taking soft forking BIP65/BIP66/CSV/SegWit, BIP65/66 are active on testnet and CSV/SegWit will be active in a few blocks time, I've learned a lot and this informs the work on XBC. We will aim for BIP65/66 first bringing us up to block v4, BIP9 will get rid of those old block version numbers and replace them with version bits, the reason for this is so that more than one soft fork can be handled at the same time. It's been a learning experience and will make life much easier in future, I've had a headache most days crawling through and learning the new code, you've got to keep in mind a dozen connected things at a time.
Lots of solid progress this weekend, Qt is almost compiled, gets to the end of the process and wants to a file that's not there, I get a lot of that, files not in Bitcoin Plus that are in Bitcoin and vice versa. Huge amount of customisation for all the additions to the project. Not sure how the mrichtexteditor Qt plugin was linking as the paths did not seem correct, they are working now and mrichtexteditor compiles along with Tor, xxhash and all the other additional source.
As I go along I end up adding in more updates to accommodate moving to autotools, there was a lot of changes made to Bitcoin to accommodate the move which were missing from Bitcoin Plus, as I hit a problem I have to go back and search Bitcoin's history, this is going to incorporate dozens of commits in this change.
I'll create a new branch pre-0.9, when it is on level with the 0.9 release we can move it to 0.9 and make it the default branch.
I will be so glad to get this done, I could have made dozens of other updates as there so many to work through but it has to move to autotools at some point, afterwards I'll go for some quick wins.
We need to move up a release at a time, the code is really far out still, Bitcoin love to refactor again and again. Tried to add the modal interface to a 0.13 client today, by the time you've finished adding in the supporting changes you're well on your way to 0.14.
There are many updates and soft forks that we can apply on the way to segwit.
I do not think that there will be any shortage of updates to the client for the community to get excited about. Ideally we end up on par with Bitcoin.
When we get to 0.12 we can soft fork CSV, 0.13 as the soft fork for SegWit.
I think we overlooked the significance of what we are doing here tbh.While its a great development to have segwit activated on bitcoinplus its equally important/significant the upgrades we are getting along the way.This is a key point to make to our community too.