Remove bootstrap.md #5469

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   fanquake commented at 6:51 AM on December 13, 2014: member

   See discussion in #5455. Can be tagged for 0.11

2. Remove bootstrap.md

   See #5455

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3. laanwj added this to the milestone 0.11.0 on Dec 13, 2014
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   laanwj commented at 9:00 AM on December 13, 2014: member

   I didn't do this yet because people are reading the documentation on github, and having doc/remove_bootstrap.md still be there in the default branch is mildly useful as long as 0.9.x is still most common. But tagging for 0.11 is OK. By that time I assume parallel block download is commonly used and bootstrapping is, for most purposes, a thing of the past.

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   paveljanik commented at 9:38 PM on December 13, 2014: contributor

   If it is the thing of the past, we should also remove the code behind it.

   We should probably also define some mechanism to deprecate features, announce to-be-deprecated features somehow. This is one thing, accounts the other etc.

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   sipa commented at 10:06 PM on December 13, 2014: member

   Linearize may remain useful for longer, especially with 0.10+'s out-of-order downloading and storage. Perhaps block chain analysis tools will no longer be able to work with the raw block files anymore, but linearize should always give very clean data to work with.

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   ghost commented at 10:21 PM on December 13, 2014: none

   I second @sipa's comments. The reports of bootstrap's death have been greatly exaggerated. Removing its documentation, even the code itself, appears premature.

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   paveljanik commented at 10:24 PM on December 13, 2014: contributor

   Don't get me wrong. I do not agree with the removal. It can be useful in many cases.

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   sipa commented at 10:30 PM on December 13, 2014: member

   My only point is that there is a distinction between removing the concept/recommendation of "using linearize to create a linear block data file" and "using said file to speed up initial download".

10. 
    makhmet commented at 10:33 PM on December 13, 2014: none

    Дорогой друг,что я удалил,Это не умышленно просто у меня мало опыта.Я даже не понимаю,что не правильно сделал.Больше нечего не буду нажимать.С ИСКРЕННИМ УВЖЕНИЕМ МАХМЕТ!!!

    2014-12-14 1:24 GMT+03:00 paveljanik notifications@github.com:

    Don't get me wrong. I do not agree with the removal. It can be useful in many cases.

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    paveljanik commented at 10:36 PM on December 13, 2014: contributor

    @sipa Yes. I was talking about the import from the .dat file (https://github.com/bitcoin/bitcoin/blob/master/src/init.cpp#L429) in this case.

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    laanwj commented at 8:34 AM on December 15, 2014: member

    No one is arguing for the linearize scripts to be removed. I'd certainly be opposed. But there is no use for a guide encouraging using the bootstrapping torent for normal users anymore.

    Importing from a .dat can also still be useful in exceptional circumstances, ie testing and troubleshooting. NACK on removing that.

13. laanwj added the label Docs and Output on Dec 15, 2014
14. laanwj added the label Trivial on Jan 8, 2015
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    laanwj commented at 1:33 PM on January 16, 2015: member

    This is part of @theuni's trivial tree (https://github.com/theuni/bitcoin-trivial/commits/trivial-rebase) and will be merged via that route, so closing this pull.

16. laanwj closed this on Jan 16, 2015

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