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961e667600Remove cached directories and associated script blocks from appveyor CI configuration. (Aaron Clauson) Pull request description: Appveyor CI jobs have been failing in the last 24 hours due to a seemingly corrupted cache, see #19440. It's possible that the appveyor cache issue is related to the[ recent update](https://www.appveyor.com/updates/2020/07/03/) of the Visual Studio 2019 image PR #19431 changes the "save cache or error" to false in an attempt to avoid a failing CI job from potentially corrupting the cache. In theory the only way a PR could affect the cache is if the `vcpkg` install list changed. That happens very rarely and did not happen in the last 24 hours and so was not the cause of the current cache problems. I have done some testing with appveyor build jobs on my own fork and found that installing the `vcpkg` dependencies from scratch and doing a full build can now be done in just under 60 minutes. This is the first time in over 5 months I have been able to build Bitcoin Core on appveyor. Either the new Visual Studio 2019 image has dramatically reduced the build time or appveyor images have had their CPU increased. This PR removes all use of dependency caching from the appveyor CI config. The trade-off is the 15 minutes saved on each build from having the dependencies cached versus the hours maintainers need to spend investigating when the CI jobs start failing. ACKs for top commit: MarcoFalke: ACK961e667600Tree-SHA512: 788c7efbfe6e044739ec41b08df30e24e26bfe0f31d1f5695e7243222a2eb649a2b5fd0254a9238fd416661dc05f737b0545d39feea7aa0da2236fffd7683a1b
Bitcoin Core integration/staging tree
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, as well as an immediately usable, binary version of the Bitcoin Core software, see https://bitcoincore.org/en/download/, or read the original 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, that are run automatically on the build server.
These tests can be run (if the test dependencies are installed) with: test/functional/test_runner.py
The Travis CI system makes 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.
Translators should also subscribe to the mailing list.