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

From: Greg Stein <gstein_at_gmail.com>
Date: Fri, 6 May 2011 19:08:10 -0400

On Fri, May 6, 2011 at 17:06, Hyrum K Wright <hyrum_at_hyrumwright.org> wrote:
> 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.

Agreed. We should switch the User-Agent string from using SVN_VERSION
to SVN_VER_NUMBER.

Cheers,
-g
Received on 2011-05-07 01:08:37 CEST

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