I have read through the thread, and as somebody who uses Armory extensively for the coin control feature plus others, I have to disagree respectfully to paraipan. To cut it short, the reference client should be improved slowly and steadily, thus decreasing the potential vector of attacks as possible. Also, Mike does make a good point up there - spending from a single address isn't paramount to the client, and I'd like to have as few features as possible just for the ease of use to newbies. At the end of the day, anyone wanting the advanced features (or 'graduate') from the reference client can simply use other clients like Armory or even the test-qt by Luke.
John, you're free to use whatever client suits your needs. As I understand you probably use Armory allot, but I don't and my reasons are straight forward, I don't want to use a fancy GUI when the reference client already has one that can be improved.
Push for improvements happens daily but at slower pace than before because few people that are in charge decide is not "safe" for us to control certain things. How is that sounds?
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Some of my oldest outstanding pull requests have had months of testing on Eligius and other pools now, but I can accept that they really need unit tests to truly prove themselves.
Guess you didn't got any help or support but you keep defending the un-defendable, whatever dude.
As usual, Gavin descends upon us and then disappears mysteriously, again...