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

From: Julian Foad <julian.foad_at_wandisco.com>
Date: Thu, 12 May 2011 10:50:07 +0100

On Fri, 2011-05-06 at 21:47 -0400, C. Michael Pilato wrote:
> 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.

r1100424 switched the string for Neon and Serf. r1102218 now does the
same for RA-svn.

- Julian
Received on 2011-05-12 11:50:44 CEST

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