User-Agent string, my patch and privacy concerns.

[Matt Mackall]

On Wed, 2008-04-02 at 20:24 +0200, Martin Geisler wrote:
> "Eric M. Hopper" <hopper at omnifarious.org> writes:
> 
> > [...] If a maintainer is thinking of moving to a version of Mercurial
> > that may do things an older version won't understand fully, it would
> > be nice to know how much of an impact that's going to have independent
> > of who complains the loudest.
> 
> Can't you already tell this from the protocol version which Mercurial
> already tells you?
> 
> I assume the protocol version would be changed if the new Mercurial is
> not backwards compatible.

The wire protocol has never changed in a way that would warrant bumping
the version number and is in fact unlikely to. We've added a couple
things to it, but in a fashion that allows backwards compatibility.

Moving away from Python 2.3 isn't much of a priority. The biggest
feature in my mind here is list.sorted() - not exactly a big deal. 

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