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Correct the formatting of HACKING.md; add top-level files reference.

Signed-off-by: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>
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Rusty Russell 9 years ago
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@ -22,35 +22,33 @@ does not use threads, so the code flow is generally fairly simple.
Here's a list of parts, with notes:
ccan/ - useful routines from http://ccodearchive.net
* ccan - useful routines from http://ccodearchive.net
- Use make update-ccan to update it.
- Use make update-ccan CCAN_NEW="mod1 mod2..." to add modules
bitcoin/ - bitcoin script, signature and transaction routines.
* bitcoin/ - bitcoin script, signature and transaction routines.
- Not a complete set, but enough for our purposes.
secp256k1/ - a copy of libsecp256k1.
* secp256k1/ - a copy of libsecp256k1.
- TODO: Replace this will the library once 1.0 is well distributed.
test/ - A few standalone test programs
- test_onion: C code to generate and decode the routing onion
(Obsolete; will replace with Sphynx!)
* test/ - A few standalone test programs
- test_onion: C code to generate and decode the routing onion (Obsolete; will replace with Sphynx!)
- test_state_coverage: routine to test state machine.
daemon/ - The start of a lightningd daemon and lightning-cli
Networking and comms:
* daemon/ - The start of a lightningd daemon and lightning-cli
- Networking and comms:
- cryptopkt: cryptographic handshake and comms routines.
- dns: async dns lookup
- netaddr: wrapper type for network addresses.
JSON and command support:
- JSON and command support:
- jsmn/ : a "minimalistic JSON parser" from http://zserge.com/jsmn.html
- json: simple wrappers around jsmn for parsing and creating JSON
- jsonrpc: routines for handing JSON commands (async).
- lightning-cli: simple lightning command line client.
Misc:
- Misc:
- configdir: support for ~/.lightning/config
- controlled_time: support for dev-mocktime to alter time.
- log: logging routines
@ -58,17 +56,30 @@ daemon/ - The start of a lightningd daemon and lightning-cli
- secrets: routines for using secret keys.
- timeout: timer support.
Dealing with bitcoin events:
- Dealing with bitcoin events:
- bitcoind: communication with bitcoind to monitor/send txs.
- watch: wrapper for watching specific events.
Core code:
- Core code:
- lightningd: main routine for lightning
- packets: per-peer packet creation and acceptance routines
- peer: peer routines and data structure.
Feel free to ask questions on the lightning-dev mailing list, or on
#lightning-dev on IRC, or email me at rusty@rustcorp.com.au.
Cheers!
* Top level:
- funding: tracking of state of a channel, including feesplit logic.
- state: core state machine for the lightning protocol.
- Helpers for lightning-specific transactions
- close_tx: mutual close transaction
- commit_tx: commit transaction (optionally with htlcs)
- permute_tx: code to permute transactions outputs for anon
- Various helper routines:
- find_p2sh_out: helper to find a given tx output.
- gen_state_names: source generator for enum names.
- opt_bits: commandline parser for "bits" (100 satoshi)
- protobuf_convert: conversion to/from protobufs.
- version: helper to print the version and build features.
Feel free to ask questions on the lightning-dev mailing list, or on #lightning-dev on IRC, or email me at rusty@rustcorp.com.au.
Cheers!<br>
Rusty.

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