This is needed to for a sane BIP143 implementation. Should be exactly equivalent to
serializing data into a vector then hashing that vector for all types.
This code was unmaintained, is unlikely to work on the majority of systems
(since it holds the whole utxoset in RAM, and not in a terribly efficient
manner), and has a dependency on `eventual` which has been broken for a
long time.
The library no longer compiles on nightly because of this, and without any
known usecases for `UtxoSet`, nor good ability to test it, I'm simply
removing the code.
I recommend anyone who cares about this extracts the code from the previous
commit and creates a new crate. It should be more featureful anyway, e.g.
support a backing store.
This is just a convenience type for the (txid, vout) pairs that get produced
a lot in Bitcoin code. To the best of my knowledge there is nowhere this can
be used in the actual library (in particular, TxOutRef.index is a usize for
convenience while TxIn.prev_index is a u32 for correct consensus encoding,
so there is not redundancy here).
Rather than having methods taking &mut self, have them consume self
and return another Builder, so that methods can be chained.
Bump major version number.
This is easy for downstream to add, not easy for them to remove. Plus scripts
have a pretty recognizable form and are usually obvious from context anyway.
Does not do stuff like validating the form of contracts, since this seems like
more of an application thing. Does not even distinguish a "nonce", just assumes
the contract has whatever uniqueness is needed baked in.
Breaking changes are:
opcode::All::from_u8 is now From<u8>
script::Builder::from_vec is now From<Vec<u8>>
script::Script::from_vec is now From<Vec<u8>>
There is still a lot of work to do modernizing the library, but the code
compiles cleanly with all unit tests passing now. Probably not much can
be done now until wizards-wallet is in better shape and the library is
actually in use.
Andrew Poelstra
Tamas Blummer