Release priorities for v0.4?

4 messages, 13 to 15 Jun 2011. Started by Jeff Garzik.

Jeff Garzik (2), Mark Visser, Theodore Witkamp

Wallet design and coin selection

Jeff Garzik 13 Jun 2011, 23:59 UTC permalink original

With increased reports of stolen wallets, I humbly submit that wallet crypto should be a top priority for the next version. https://github.com/bitcoin/bitcoin/pull/232

Anyway... start pulling :)

Mark Visser 15 Jun 2011, 14:27 UTC in reply to Jeff Garzik permalink original

[n00b alert]

I humbly suggest allowing the wallet.dat location to be specified in the preferences. Being able to easily physically disconnect a wallet by unplugging a USB key seems like a good idea.

cheers, Mark

Jeff Garzik 15 Jun 2011, 16:50 UTC in reply to Mark Visser permalink original

On Wed, Jun 15, 2011 at 10:27 AM, Mark Visser <mjmvisser@gmail•com> wrote:

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> I humbly suggest allowing the wallet.dat location to be specified in the preferences. Being able to easily physically disconnect a wallet by unplugging a USB key seems like a good idea.

That's what -datadir is for. Unfortunately -all- databases must be in the datadir, because wallet.dat is a berkeley db, and we need a transactional environment. That makes it difficult to move just one file.

Theodore Witkamp 15 Jun 2011, 17:32 UTC in reply to Jeff Garzik permalink original

On Wed, Jun 15, 2011 at 9:50 AM, Jeff Garzik <jgarzik@exmulti•com> wrote:

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> On Wed, Jun 15, 2011 at 10:27 AM, Mark Visser <mjmvisser@gmail•com> wrote:
>> I humbly suggest allowing the wallet.dat location to be specified in the preferences. Being able to easily physically disconnect a wallet by unplugging a USB key seems like a good idea.
>
> That's what -datadir is for.  Unfortunately -all- databases must be in
> the datadir, because wallet.dat is a berkeley db, and we need a
> transactional environment.  That makes it difficult to move just one
> file.

I am a Berkley DB ignoramus , but how is specifying the wallet file path different than using a symlink?

Also I think that allowing the user to open more than one wallet helps the user develop an intuition for the system. A simple task like opening transferring coins from one to the other is currently very awkward on the same installation.

Ted