Re: [Bitcoin-development] Deprecating Bitcoin Core's regtest-specific `setgenerate` behaviour

I would recommend adding the new method and deprecating (as in warning against using) the old one for one major release. Then removing it altogether in the following major release. I have written a Java RPC client and Groovy/Spock functional tests that

[Bitcoin-development] Deprecating Bitcoin Core's regtest-specific `setgenerate` behaviour

Hello everyone, Bitcoin Core's `setgenerate` RPC call has had a special meaning for -regtest (namely instantaneously mining a number of blocks, instead of starting a background CPU miner). We're planning to deprecate that overloaded behaviour, and replace it with a separate RPC call `generate`. I