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diff --git a/src/node/README.md b/src/node/README.md new file mode 100644 index 0000000000..e99a717534 --- /dev/null +++ b/src/node/README.md @@ -0,0 +1,22 @@ +# src/node/ + +The [`src/node/`](./) directory contains code that needs to access node state +(state in `CChain`, `CBlockIndex`, `CCoinsView`, `CTxMemPool`, and similar +classes). + +Code in [`src/node/`](./) is meant to be segregated from code in +[`src/wallet/`](../wallet/) and [`src/qt/`](../qt/), to ensure wallet and GUI +code changes don't interfere with node operation, to allow wallet and GUI code +to run in separate processes, and to perhaps eventually allow wallet and GUI +code to be maintained in separate source repositories. + +As a rule of thumb, code in one of the [`src/node/`](./), +[`src/wallet/`](../wallet/), or [`src/qt/`](../qt/) directories should avoid +calling code in the other directories directly, and only invoke it indirectly +through the more limited [`src/interfaces/`](../interfaces/) classes. + +The [`src/node/`](./) directory is a new directory introduced in +[#14978](https://github.com/bitcoin/bitcoin/pull/14978) and at the moment is +sparsely populated. Eventually more substantial files like +[`src/validation.cpp`](../validation.cpp) and +[`src/txmempool.cpp`](../txmempool.cpp) might be moved there. |