Every block index entry currently requires a separately-allocated
CBigNum. By replacing them with uint256, it's just 32 bytes extra
in CBlockIndex itself.
This should save us a few megabytes in RAM, and less allocation
overhead.
* reformatted the entire document to look pretty in both standard text and
Markdown
* incorporated [my OS X 10.8 build instructions with Homebrew as the package
manager](http://bitcoin.stackexchange.com/questions/3672/trouble-compiling-bitcoind-on-osx-with-homebrew/5253#5253)
* incorporated @gavinandresen's MacPorts and release build instructions based on
an earlier revision of this commit
* added makefile patch necessary for Homebrew compilation to `contrib`
Two changes: make some linux-specific linker options linux and linker specific.
And in the cross-compile environment, prefer the $HOME/qt/bin tools to
whatever might be somewhere else in the path.
The current default URL doesn't seem to exist.
Unsure wether this should be updated to point to 0.7.2 now or wether
just to wait untill 0.8.0 is out and point there?
Commit also fixes a minor typo in the macdeploy notes.txt
Version numbers changed from 0.7.99 to 0.8.0
Set CLIENT_VERSION_IS_RELEASE to remove pre-release warning
Updated copyright in COPYING and doc/READMEs to 2013
Updated doc/release-notes.txt
Use 'osascript' to run AppleScript, instead of using (broken-in-10.8)
python appscript package.
And added support for code-signing the .app bundle, to make OSX's
GateKeeper happy.
* Updates package description to note that blockchain now takes
2+ GB instead of 150+ MB.
* Stop creating DB_CONFIG with DB_LOG_AUTO_REMOVE as that is set
in Bitcoin itself now.
* Update changelog with 0.6.2 and the current updates.
Patrick Brown