Hello.

I couldn't find any other thread for this issue so here goes.

The following pull request was denied a while ago. https://github.com/bitcoin/bitcoin/pull/63
I would like to take it up for discussion since I know I am not alone to feel that it is a central thing to have the protocol version != client version.

Surely the other client makers out there can agree that this is a necessary thing?

Hello.

After playing a bit with writing a python implementation of the protocol (extending pybitcoin) I find it very frustrating that I am unable to debug my packets. A quick scan around the wiki, IRC and forums revealed that no-one has stepped up to produce one, but I am going to write a wireshark dissector. Hopefully this will make the life of alternative implementations developers a bit easier.

I'll keep you posted - I should have something basic working by the end today or tomorrow and continue to extend it as I go along.