Changing step 1 to "Install PyBitmessage"

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Changing step 1 to "Install PyBitmessage"

knowitnothing opened this issue 11 years ago · comments

As a complete newcomer to bitmessage, how hard would it be to not require running the GUI client before being able to run the daemon ? I'm interested in providing a patch for this, but I just started looking into bitmessage's code.

knowitnothing · Answer 1 · Sat Nov 02 2013 02:30:45 GMT+0800 (China Standard Time)

I see that daemon.py can create the keys.dat itself, but it seems I misunderstood this project. The GUI client must be running, and daemon just communicates with it. I thought this would be a daemon to use pybitmessage without a GUI at all.

EDIT: ugh, just set daemon = true in the keys.dat and there is no need for GUI. Sorry for the fuss.

EDIT 2: Maybe this "daemon" setting should be named "console" instead, as it does not run as a daemon with it ?

Adam Melton · Answer 2 · Sun Nov 03 2013 10:53:00 GMT+0800 (China Standard Time)

I should probably rename it CLI or Console or something different now that it has become what it is.

Glad you got it figured out.