Copyright (c) 2009-2014 Bitcoin Core Developers Copyright (c) 2011-2014 IXCoin Core Developers
IXCoin, like Bitcoin is an experimental new digital currency that enables instant payments to anyone, anywhere in the world.
Created by Thomas Nasakioto, IXCoin uses the same peer-to-peer technology to operate with no central authority: managing transactions and issuing money are carried out collectively by the network.
IXCoin Core is the name of this open source software which enables the use of that currency.
For more information, see the Ixcoin To-Do Thread @ https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=230141
A new IXcoin Foundation has recently formed in 2014, this is ongoing, with the intention that the orignal http://www.ixcoin.org website be maintained and kept current, watch there for updates as well as useable binary versions of the IXCoin Core software
IXCoin Core is released under the terms of the MIT license. See COPYING for more information or see http://opensource.org/licenses/MIT.
Developers work in their own trees, then submit pull requests when they think their feature or bug fix is ready.
If it is a simple/trivial/non-controversial change, then one of the IXCoin development team members simply pulls it.
Testing and code review is the bottleneck for development; Please be patient and help out, and remember this is a security-critical project where any mistake might cost people lots of money.
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
Large changes should have a test plan, and should be tested by somebody other than the developer who wrote the code. See https://github.com/ixcoin/QA/ for how to create a test plan.
We need help here!
Changes to translations as well as new translations can be submitted to IXCoin Core's Transifex page.
Periodically the translations are 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 request because the next pull from Transifex would automatically overwrite them again.
compiling for debugging
Run configure with the --enable-debug option, then make. Or run configure with CXXFLAGS="-g -ggdb -O0" or whatever debug flags you need.
debug.log
If the code is behaving strangely, take a look in the debug.log file in the data directory; error and debugging message are written there.
The -debug=... command-line option controls debugging; running with just -debug will turn on all categories (and give you a very large debug.log file).
The Qt code routes qDebug() output to debug.log under category "qt": run with -debug=qt to see it.
testnet and regtest modes
Run with the -testnet option to run with "play ixcoins" on the test network, if you are testing multi-machine code that needs to operate across the internet.
If you are testing something that can run on one machine, run with the -regtest option. In regression test mode blocks can be created on-demand; see qa/rpc-tests/ for tests that run in -regest mode.
DEBUG_LOCKORDER
IXCoin Core is a multithreaded application, and deadlocks or other multithreading bugs can be very difficult to track down. Compiling with -DDEBUG_LOCKORDER (configure CXXFLAGS="-DDEBUG_LOCKORDER -g") inserts run-time checks to keep track of what locks are held, and adds warning to the debug.log file if inconsistencies are detected.