[Nut-upsdev] NUT protocol versions (was Re: [nut-commits] svn commit r3618 - in trunk: . docs server)

[Charles Lepple]

On May 22, 2012, at 7:47 PM, Charles Lepple wrote:

> On May 22, 2012, at 10:49 AM, Arnaud Quette wrote:
> 
>> Author: aquette
>> Date: Tue May 22 14:49:15 2012
>> New Revision: 3618
>> URL: http://trac.networkupstools.org/projects/nut/changeset/3618
>> 
>> Log:
>> Add versioning to the network protocol
>> 
>> Due to the number of recent evolutions to the network protocol, along
>> with other possible future changes, NUT network protocol is now
>> versioned. The chapter "Network protocol information", of the developer
>> guide, stores the revision history, while a new "NETVER" command serves
>> this information through the protocol
> 
> 
> I really thought we had discussed not using numeric version numbers :-(
> 
> This should really be more of a "does the server have this capability?" question.


Perhaps "discussed" is an exaggeration... "mentioned":

http://lists.alioth.debian.org/pipermail/nut-upsdev/2012-March/006000.html

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