Hi IXCOIN gang!
Wow.....well into the new year already, sounds like some exciting stuff happening...
Will be spending the next few days trying to catch up on developments. Personal note: Thanks again Jumbley, your able to say so much, with just a few words....
@Ahmed - As you know, cause we've been hanging out on freenode ##ixcoin for months, I worked hard on Ixcoin in Nov, almost exclusively on a major new 'depends' builder, able to quickly build executables for cross-platform targets on a linux machine, there are some other minor enhancements I made to, primarily to migrate the clientversion methodology closer to the latest bitcoin we had at the time.
For those that don't know, when I started helping out here, I was basically learning and building Ixcoin on a Windows 32 bit machine, using the MingW compiler and development tools required to build crypto. Anyway, since last showing up, I've completely migrated my personal computer/web experience & more importantly the development platform & tools one needs over to a Debian wheezy 64 bit OS setup. A very big change, it's hard to describe how fantastic it's been to breath new life into this old hardware.
Ahmed my point is, if you've got ongoing efforts to port Ixcoin to v0.10! Wow, that is a huge jump! I want to support it! It goes way past what I have here locally, makes that work obsolete. Story of my life haha...
No hard feels though, it's my intention to never release that work, unless need be, as I learned allot from it. If you're not able to get the port of Ixcoin to v0.10 done as easily as you've hoped, it's available. My guess is that your efforts will prove successful, there will be no need to create separate branches or make that migration in baby steps. In either case, I'll see you again soon on irc, been buried in code this last month and unavailable, hope you had a good holiday.
For the rest of you, what this all means is that I'm pretty much setup to provide production class builds to various targets for Ixcoin, and it's quick. Once the toolchains have been built. I see the Bitcoin gurus released a major new update right after the new year, changes to the 'depends' builder concept I'm now using. Finally there is a pretty good chance we can offer Darwin builds from a linux hosted builder, I want us to have that capability. Will be testing Bitcoin's latest over the next two weeks, if someone else has it figured out already, super. Please step forward. There are lots of other loose ends I want to work on, but my priority is going to shift now to finishing what I started which is, the process of generating language translations files we need for Ixcoin. Can handle the technical aspect of it, but it's not my specialty, so always looking for help in that regard. Humans have so many different languages. You can find the account I created for team work here:
https://www.transifex.com/projects/p/ixcoin-core-qt/I'll announce when I have the 1st set of Ixcoinstrings submitted. Getting a good set of language files for Ixcoin is something which I think is real important, and hope to streamline the process enough, that it can get done periodically.
As I haven't been around much for over two months, want all of you to know that I still fully support everyones efforts to advance Ixcoin's presence into what I think will be a big time growing market place for 2015! We may not all agree on what direction to take, or how to do it, but that is all part of the great experiment. Not to be taken as a personal attack, simply because we may disagree.
More to follow... have a few hundred thousand posts to wade through...
GR
