We haven't touched the readme for quite some time, just randomly added to it,
and it's starting to show. This is my attempt at cleaning it up a bit (more to
come):
- No longer discourage users from running on mainnet, we're way beyond that
point.
- No longer instruct users to build from source, when we have real binary
releases, on the PPA, the releases page and the docker images.
- Cut down on the docker specific instructions, they are taking a lot of room
when only a minority will likely run them that way
- Generally make the README more of a dispatch for more in-depth
documentation rather than trying to address everything right on the
front-page.
- Add a bit of context about running on top of a pruned node
Signed-off-by: Christian Decker <decker.christian@gmail.com>
Header from folded patch 'fixup!_readme__first_pass_at_homogenizing_the_readme_a_bit.patch':
fixup! readme: First pass at homogenizing the readme a bit
`close` takes two optional arguments: `force` and `timeout`.
`timeout` doesn't timeout the close (there's no way to do that), just
the JSON call. `force` (default `false`) if set, means we unilaterally
close at the timeout, instead of just failing.
Timing out JSON calls is generally deprecated: that's the job of the
client. And the semantics of this are confusing, even to me! A
better API is a timeout which, if non-zero, is the time at which we
give up and unilaterally close.
The transition code is awkward, but we'll manage for the three
releases until we can remove it.
The new defaults are to unilaterally close after 48 hours.
Fixes: #2791
Signed-off-by: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>
This is easy since we did the option parsing cleanup, but it has the
effect that plugins are launched from the lightning-dir. Now
we have dynamic plugins, this means startup and post-startup plugins
experience the same environment.
This is absolutely a desirable thing: they can just drop files in
their cwd rather than having to move (including, I might note, core
files!).
We also highlight the change in various places (and a drive-up update
of PLUGINS.md which says you have to use --plugin).
The next patch adds a backwards compatibility wedge for old users of
relative plugin paths.
Signed-off-by: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>
This makes it build for me on FreeBSD 11:
1. $(MAKE) has to passed through into update-mocks.
2. FreeBSD sed doesn't turn \n into a newline on RHS.
3. Bash and mako dependencies were missing from INSTALL.md
Fixes: #2850
Signed-off-by: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>
updates the bolt version to 6639cef095a2ecc7b8f0c48c6e7f2f906fbfbc58.
this requires us to use the new bolt parser at generate-bolt.py
and updates to all of the type specifications (ie. from u8 -> byte)
This allows you to prepare a tx, then release or discard it later.
Shares almost all the code with json_withdraw (which is now technically
superfluous).
Signed-off-by: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>
Fixes: #2659
Value randomization is not implemented since `pay` was made into a plugin.
Nobody has been asking for it, so do not implement it and just remove
from documentation.
Shadow routes is implemented, and not describe, so describe it now.
This was deeply surprising to me; there's a difference between a value not being
specified, and it being specified as "".
Signed-off-by: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>
* remove libbase58, use base58 from libwally
This removes libbase58 and uses libwally instead.
It allocates and then frees some memory, we may want to
add a function in wally that doesn't or override
wally_operations to use tal.
Signed-off-by: Lawrence Nahum lawrence@greenaddress.it
If we have plugins configured in the default config location, then
`check-manpages` may fail due to plugin cli options being added to the
`--help` output.
Christian Decker
Rusty Russell
Rene Pickhardt
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Simon Vrouwe
Kristaps Kaupe
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Juraj Bednar
Rene Pickhardt
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