Replaces core transaction, address, serialization
and sign functionality for Bitcoin with
python-bitcointx backend.
Removes bech32 and btscript
modules from jmbitcoin. Removes all string,
hex, binary conversion routines. A generic
hex/binary conversion now is added to jmbase.
Removes all transaction serialization and
deserialization routines. Removes the now
irrelevant test modules.
Remaining functions in jmbitcoin remove any parsing of
hex format, requiring callers to use binary only.
One additional test added, testing the remaining
function in secp256k1_transaction.py: the signing
of transactions. Deserialized form is now
bitcointx.CMutableTransaction.
For jmbase, in addition to the above, generic conversions
for utxos to and from strings is added, and a dynamic conversion
for AMP messages to binary-only. Within the code, utxos are
now only in (binarytxid, int) form, except where converted
for communcation.
Tthe largest part of the changes are
the modifications to jmbitcoin calls in jmclient;
as well as different encapsulation with CMutableTransaction,
there is also a removal of some but not all hex parsing;
it remains for rpc calls to Core and for AMP message
parsing. Backwards compatibility must be ensured so some
joinmarket protocol messages still use hex, and it is
also preserved in persistence of PoDLE data.
As part of this, some significant simplification of
certain legacy functions within the wallet has been done.
jmdaemon is entirely unaltered (save for one test which
simulates jmclient code).
Slight modification to install process, using pip install to avoid
polluting directories with build data.
Added general regression test support files to test/ (distinct from
planned package-level unit tests), this 2 levels of test should
function much better.
Adam Gibson
James Hilliard