Thank you for all the explanations on how to use regtest to reproduce the example scenarios. It seems like a private mode wouldn't be particularly helpful for testing so I won't create a pull request and will just work on the private chains separately from bitcoind.
Going back to chainparam modes in general, I've heard Sipa complain some times about regtest being too specific, arguing that some of the behaviors should be specified as independent parameters instead of chainparams attributes. One example could be bool CChainPrams::MineBlocksOnDemand() (see https://github.com/jtimon/bitcoin/commit/5bd4bc7f3694e46568c9276f0cb26402dfb99718 ). If that was an independent parameter that people set to true when using regtest, the blocktime param I was proposing for -timedtest could also be implemented as an independent parameter without any need for a new mode. It's not clear to me if the timedtest parameter would be useful for bitcoind testing or not, but it's just something I've noticed while playing with this part of the code. Sipa, is this the kind of thing you refer to when you say regtest is too specific? Do you have any suggestion on how to solve the issue as part of PR 3824? Well, any suggestions from anyone on how to improve PR 3824 are welcomed, I was just asking specifically to sipa because as said it is my understanding that he had some complaints about regtest and I think this is something simple enough for me to start contributing to bitcoind. Specially given that I was going to review all that part of the code to externally write the private mode anyway. -- Jorge Timón http://freico.in/ ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Learn Graph Databases - Download FREE O'Reilly Book "Graph Databases" is the definitive new guide to graph databases and their applications. Written by three acclaimed leaders in the field, this first edition is now available. Download your free book today! http://p.sf.net/sfu/NeoTech _______________________________________________ Bitcoin-development mailing list Bitcoin-development@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/bitcoin-development
