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@@ -9,11 +9,29 @@ A fair warning; Ethereum is not yet to be used in production. There's no test-net and you aren't mining real blocks (just one which is the genesis block). -Ethereum Go is split up in several sub packages. Please refer to each +Ethereum Go is split up in several sub packages Please refer to each individual package for more information. - 1. [ethutil](https://github.com/ethereum/ethutil-go) - 2. [ethdb](https://github.com/ethereum/ethdb-go) + 1. [eth](https://github.com/ethereum/eth-go) + 2. [ethchain](https://github.com/ethereum/ethchain-go) 3. [ethwire](https://github.com/ethereum/ethwire-go) + 4. [ethdb](https://github.com/ethereum/ethdb-go) + 5. [ethutil](https://github.com/ethereum/ethutil-go) + +The [eth](https://github.com/ethereum/eth-go) is the top-level package +of the Ethereum protocol. It functions as the Ethereum bootstrapping and +peer communication layer. The [ethchain](https://github.com/ethereum/ethchain-go) +contains the Ethereum blockchain, block manager, transaction and +transaction handlers. The [ethwire](https://github.com/ethereum/ethwire-go) contains +the Ethereum [wire protocol](http://wiki.ethereum.org/index.php/Wire_Protocol) which can be used +to hook in to the Ethereum network. [ethutil](https://github.com/ethereum/ethutil-go) contains +utility functions which are not Ethereum specific. The utility package +contains the [patricia trie](http://wiki.ethereum.org/index.php/Patricia_Tree), +[RLP Encoding](http://wiki.ethereum.org/index.php/RLP) and hex encoding +helpers. The [ethdb](https://github.com/ethereum/ethdb-go) package +contains the LevelDB interface and memory DB interface. + +This executable is the front-end (currently nothing but a dev console) for +the Ethereum Go implementation. Deps ==== |