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Re: New)(?) Subversion client user-agent string ugliness.

From: Hyrum K Wright <hyrum_at_hyrumwright.org>
Date: Fri, 6 May 2011 16:06:24 -0500

On Fri, May 6, 2011 at 4:01 PM, C. Michael Pilato <cmpilato_at_collab.net> wrote:
> Is there a convention in HTTP user-agent strings to use whitespace to
> delimit various bits of information carried in that string?  I asked because
> our client strings now look like so in trunk co:
>
> "SVN/1.7.0-dev (under development) neon/0.28.2"
>
> I *think* the " (under development)" bit is new(ish) and the result of
> Julian's relatively recent tweaks to our version strings.  I'm not so fond
> of its appearance in this location, but wanted to hear other's opinion on
> the matter.
>
> So ... what say you?

Seems kinda redundant when used along with the '-dev' postfix in the
version number, says I.

-Hyrum
Received on 2011-05-06 23:06:52 CEST

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