999982b06ce1d1280e5ce48f9253c6c536f41a12 build: Add --enable-c++20 option (MarcoFalke) fae679065e4ef0c6383bbdd1876aaed6c1e40104 Add CSerializedNetMsg::Copy() helper (MarcoFalke) fabb7c4ba629ecdea80a23674e2659d3d391565f Make fs.h C++20 compliant (MarcoFalke) fae2220f4e48934313389864d3d362f672627eb8 scheduler: Capture ‘this’ explicitly in lambda (MarcoFalke) Pull request description: This is for CI and devs only and doesn't change that C++17 is the standard we are currently using. The option `--enable-c++20` allows CI to check that the C++17 code in the repo is also valid C++20. (There are some cases where valid C++17 doesn't compile under C++20). Also, it allows developers to easily play with C++20 in the codebase. ACKs for top commit: ryanofsky: Code review ACK 999982b06ce1d1280e5ce48f9253c6c536f41a12. Since last review was rebased, and enum-conversion change was dropped, and CSerializedNetMsg copy workaround was added fanquake: utACK 999982b06ce1d1280e5ce48f9253c6c536f41a12 Tree-SHA512: afc95ba03ea2b937017fc8e2b1449379cd2b6f7093c430d2e344c665a00c51e402d6651cbcbd0be8118ea1e54c3a86e67d2021d19ba1d4da67168e9fcb6b6f83
Bitcoin Core integration/staging tree
For an immediately usable, binary version of the Bitcoin Core software, see https://bitcoincore.org/en/download/.
Further information about Bitcoin Core is available in the doc folder.
What is Bitcoin?
Bitcoin is an experimental digital currency that enables instant payments to anyone, anywhere in the world. Bitcoin uses peer-to-peer technology to operate with no central authority: managing transactions and issuing money are carried out collectively by the network. Bitcoin Core is the name of open source software which enables the use of this currency.
For more information read the original Bitcoin whitepaper.
License
Bitcoin Core is released under the terms of the MIT license. See COPYING for more information or see https://opensource.org/licenses/MIT.
Development Process
The master
branch is regularly built (see doc/build-*.md
for instructions) and tested, but it is not guaranteed to be
completely stable. Tags are created
regularly from release branches to indicate new official, stable release versions of Bitcoin Core.
The https://github.com/bitcoin-core/gui repository is used exclusively for the development of the GUI. Its master branch is identical in all monotree repositories. Release branches and tags do not exist, so please do not fork that repository unless it is for development reasons.
The contribution workflow is described in CONTRIBUTING.md and useful hints for developers can be found in doc/developer-notes.md.
Testing
Testing and code review is the bottleneck for development; we get more pull requests than we can review and test on short notice. Please be patient and help out by testing other people's pull requests, and remember this is a security-critical project where any mistake might cost people lots of money.
Automated Testing
Developers are strongly encouraged to write unit tests for new code, and to
submit new unit tests for old code. Unit tests can be compiled and run
(assuming they weren't disabled in configure) with: make check
. Further details on running
and extending unit tests can be found in /src/test/README.md.
There are also regression and integration tests, written
in Python.
These tests can be run (if the test dependencies are installed) with: test/functional/test_runner.py
The CI (Continuous Integration) systems make sure that every pull request is built for Windows, Linux, and macOS, and that unit/sanity tests are run automatically.
Manual Quality Assurance (QA) Testing
Changes should be tested by somebody other than the developer who wrote the code. This is especially important for large or high-risk changes. It is useful to add a test plan to the pull request description if testing the changes is not straightforward.
Translations
Changes to translations as well as new translations can be submitted to Bitcoin Core's Transifex page.
Translations are periodically pulled from Transifex and merged into the git repository. See the translation process for details on how this works.
Important: We do not accept translation changes as GitHub pull requests because the next pull from Transifex would automatically overwrite them again.