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

From: C. Michael Pilato <cmpilato_at_collab.net>
Date: Fri, 06 May 2011 21:47:25 -0400

On 05/06/2011 07:08 PM, Greg Stein wrote:
> 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.

Okey dokey. r1100424. Thanks, guys.

-- 
C. Michael Pilato <cmpilato_at_collab.net>
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Received on 2011-05-07 03:47:52 CEST

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