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Re: [PATCH] User-Agent: ReleaseDate in brackets



On Tue, Jul 18, 2006 at 01:12:34PM -0700, Thomas Roessler wrote:
> On 2006-07-17 09:02:30 -0700, William Yardley wrote:
 
> > I personally don't like either - what's wrong with the way
> > it was before?
 
> Well, the "just version number" thing didn't work particularly
> well to actually identify the CVS state that some binary was
> in.  The current reldate string is actually useful information
> since it's generated from the time stamp of the latest commit.

Right... I absolutely think it's useful for CVS builds. I'm just
wondering if leaving it out for releases (even devel releases) would be
Ok.

But if the date's going to be there, I personally think having it in
parens looks a lot nicer.

w