i can see why they gave up running the old wallet/daemon code.

on my site running the explorer, i find the old wallet daemon just randomly likes to die after a while.

also, when starting up, both on my linux server and windows7 machines it does not like to properly
finish starting up after (very slowly) reading all the blockfiles.
it just goes into a mood where it's trying to connect to peers but won't talk to the windows screen or answer RPC requests.

i discovered if i disabled the network interfaces just before it finishes (slowly) reading the blockfiles and
wait for the rest of the startup to finish then it works okay. then i get to re-enable my network interfaces.

perhaps it's just me