@smooth, @stoffu. Things have been too quiet around here. How long will it take for the code rebase to finally be implemented? I estimated at the end of March, but it looks like it's not.
Also what of the blockchain? Will there be a converter to turn it into an LMDB file? I would not want to download it all over again, if absolutely possible.
Thank you.
I'd like to know the answer to that first question.
The blockchain itself, given you have decent hardware, takes roughly 1 hour tops to download and be ready to use. It's not a pain like the current released version of aeond.
I feel that my part in the rebase effort is mostly over, and I think it's up to smooth and other core team members to finalize things and move forward. I don't know when that will be, but I think we should take into account that Monero is having its hardfork and software release at the end of this month, which will likely keep smooth quite busy. I expect the official release of rebased Aeon to be sometime in April when all the stress involved with Monero hardfork is over.
this is a quote from reddit user peanutsformonkeys
OK, if you have the current aeond fully synced up, you could, once you have the rebase aeond built, sync from your local up-to-date aeond with the --add-exclusive-node 127.0.0.1 flag
looks like you don't have to DL the entire blockchain. I don't think that the rebase is ready for the aeon mainchain yet.
This will work, except that the two aeond, pre-rebase and post-rebase, will need to use different port numbers for P2P and RPC, because one single computer can assign the same port number to only one program.