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Title: Please test (if you dare): next-test 20120324 Post by: Luke-Jr on March 25, 2012, 04:41:24 AM next-test is a branch of the mainline bitcoind & Bitcoin-Qt with as many pull requests merged as possible, to aid in testing them. This branch can be used to test many pull requests in your daily Bitcoin use. The goal is to help pull requests get the testing they need to be merged into the main tree, so once you test a change, please comment in the relevant pull request (ideally with details).
Please note these might possibly corrupt your wallet. No warranty of any kind of provided. BACKUP YOUR WALLET Also note this is the first next-test that excludes my Coinbaser enhancement. Click here (https://github.com/bitcoin/bitcoin/pull/719#issuecomment-4567234) for details. It is also the first next-test to include coderrr's coin control features.
Today's next-test includes the following pull requests (green are merged now; red are disputed):
Title: Re: Please test (if you dare): next-test 20120324 Post by: da2ce7 on March 25, 2012, 10:19:16 AM While it is great that Luke has put the time into preparing these next-test builds :D. I just wanted to explain why the maroon pull patches are contested.
Typo-tolerant (optimized) Base58 parser (https://github.com/bitcoin/bitcoin/pull/552) The problem is that this may (quite unlikely) correct to an unspendable address. Parse URIs with non-BTC amounts (https://github.com/bitcoin/bitcoin/pull/553) Support URI with Satoshi or Hex or (Tonal, that is just hex with funny characters). Problem. People want URI's to be easily human readable. Optimized binary-to-hex converter (ToHex) (https://github.com/bitcoin/bitcoin/pull/562) Danger of buffer overflow, (if there is a bug in the to hex code). Virtually no real-life performance gain. Support for Tonal Bitcoin units (ᵇTBC, ˢTBC, and TBC) (https://github.com/bitcoin/bitcoin/pull/929) Tonal support, tonal is base 16 numbers with strange characters for the numbers higher than 9. Problem: nobody cares about tonal other than Luke. Title: Re: Please test (if you dare): next-test 20120324 Post by: Luke-Jr on March 25, 2012, 12:48:02 PM Optimized binary-to-hex converter (ToHex) (https://github.com/bitcoin/bitcoin/pull/562) Danger of buffer overflow, (if there is a bug in the to hex code). Virtually no real-life performance gain.Support for Tonal Bitcoin units (ᵇTBC, ˢTBC, and TBC) (https://github.com/bitcoin/bitcoin/pull/929) Tonal support, tonal is base 16 numbers with strange characters for the numbers higher than 9.Problem: nobody cares about tonal other than Luke. Title: Re: Please test (if you dare): next-test 20120324 Post by: Serenata on April 30, 2012, 04:00:43 PM Any newer releases?
On my setup (Win7 64, main client v0.6, wallet upgraded) , bitcoin-next-test-20120324-win32 crashes all the time :( I liked coin control features. Title: Re: Please test (if you dare): next-test 20120324 Post by: Luke-Jr on April 30, 2012, 04:04:36 PM Any newer releases? I'll probably spin another next-test pretty soon. Stay tuned ;)On my setup (Win7 64, main client v0.6, wallet upgraded) , bitcoin-next-test-20120324-win32 crashes all the time :( I liked coin control features. Title: Re: Please test (if you dare): next-test 20120324 Post by: Serenata on April 30, 2012, 04:05:37 PM Nice! Thaanks!! :D
Title: Re: Please test (if you dare): next-test 20120324 Post by: Luke-Jr on May 01, 2012, 09:59:39 PM This next-test has been superceded. (https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=78846.0)
Title: Re: Please test (if you dare): next-test 20120324 Post by: beckspace on May 02, 2012, 03:25:03 AM Support for Tonal Bitcoin units (ᵇTBC, ˢTBC, and TBC) (https://github.com/bitcoin/bitcoin/pull/929) Tonal support, tonal is base 16 numbers with strange characters for the numbers higher than 9. Problem: nobody cares about tonal other than Luke. I find very interesting the Tonal discussion. Computers use it all the time. Music also. And when I'm slicing pizza. And astronauts: http://history.nasa.gov/computers/p126.jpg http://history.nasa.gov/computers/Ch4-7.html Title: Re: Please test (if you dare): next-test 20120324 Post by: rjk on May 02, 2012, 03:48:49 AM Support for Tonal Bitcoin units (ᵇTBC, ˢTBC, and TBC) (https://github.com/bitcoin/bitcoin/pull/929) Tonal support, tonal is base 16 numbers with strange characters for the numbers higher than 9. Problem: nobody cares about tonal other than Luke. I find very interesting the Tonal discussion. Computers use it all the time. Music also. And when I'm slicing pizza. And astronauts: http://history.nasa.gov/computers/p126.jpg http://history.nasa.gov/computers/Ch4-7.html Title: Re: Please test (if you dare): next-test 20120324 Post by: Luke-Jr on May 02, 2012, 04:08:22 AM The alternate name to throw people off the fact that it is just hex? Except it's not.Title: Re: Please test (if you dare): next-test 20120324 Post by: beckspace on May 02, 2012, 04:23:41 AM Please, Luke, enlighten me.
Where did you see Tonal (or Hex) in Bitcoins? I see that there is 21000000.00000000 Bitcoins, that's 16 numbers (is it a clue?) But the units are decimals (0-9), so, where does it fits? Mathematically? (Something tells me that one or another type of measure will have non-round numbers). I'd like to see examples of simple conversions so maybe I can grasp it. Title: Re: Please test (if you dare): next-test 20120324 Post by: Luke-Jr on May 02, 2012, 01:00:30 PM Please, Luke, enlighten me. Unlike the later invention of hexadecimal, which only provides digits for base 8*2 (and hijacks them from the Latin alphabet), Tonal also provides pronunciations (an, de, ti, go, su, by, ra, me, ni, ko, hu, vy, la, po, fy, ton), fractions (forbidden in hexadecimal), and units for measurement of length (the Earth's circumference is 1,0000 millmeters), time/circles/compass (each day is divided into 10 tims), capacity (1 gall = 1 cubic meter), weight (1 pon = 1 gall of water), power (1 effect = 1 pon lifted 1 meter in 1 timmill), money (cents, shillings, and dollars), postage stamps, the calendar (ANuary, DEbrian, TImander, GOstus, SUvenary, BYlian, RAtamber, MEsudius, NIctoary, KOlumbian, HUsamber, VYctorious, LAmboary, POlian, FYlander, TONborious), temperature/heat (10 temps = 100 celcius), music, and abacus/stchoty.Where did you see Tonal (or Hex) in Bitcoins? As no government has adopted Tonal for currency, there has been a void. The day I discovered Bitcoin, it seemed obvious it could fill this void.I see that there is 21000000.00000000 Bitcoins, that's 16 numbers (is it a clue?) There are technically 2,100,000,000,000,000 actual items in the Bitcoin protocol. For whatever reason, Satoshi chose to set the unit of "BTC" at 100,000,000 of these. TBC, on the other hand, is exactly 1,0000 (tonal, remember) items. Therefore, 1 TBC = 0.00065536 BTC and 1 BTC = 55.1 TBC (the wiki has a nice chart of units (https://en.bitcoin.it/wiki/Units)). Since the decimal and tonal units are fundamentally different, they can mostly function as independent currencies (for example, clients can detect whether a transaction is BTC or TBC based on its value (https://en.bitcoin.it/wiki/Bitcoin-Watch)) while still being directly exchanged between single-number-system users without confusion (since their client will only show the units they understand) and cooperating on mining efforts, adoption, etc.But the units are decimals (0-9), so, where does it fits? Mathematically? (Something tells me that one or another type of measure will have non-round numbers). I'd like to see examples of simple conversions so maybe I can grasp it. Title: Re: Please test (if you dare): next-test 20120324 Post by: rjk on May 02, 2012, 02:00:44 PM The alternate name to throw people off the fact that it is just hex? Except it's not. |
