Comment 3 for bug 420408
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| Robert Collins (lifeless) wrote Re: [Bug 420408] Re: bzr version URL should display smart server information | #3 |
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On Mon, 2009-08-31 at 02:41 +0000, Andrew Bennetts wrote:
> Hmm, there are conflicting intuitions about where this belongs. The
> reporter of 308472 expected this to be provided by "bzr info", and
> that's what I'd expect too.
>
> I don't think "bzr version" is a good fit for this functionality. It
> mostly reports details like Python version, where bzr is loading the
> Python standard library from, the platform identifier (including Linux
> kernel version where appropriate), locations of log files, and so on.
> Smart servers don't expose those details to clients, and I don't think
> they should.
Also 'version' is a very ambiguous command. It could refer to the users
tree, or bzr's software, or be an imperative similar to 'bzr add'.
As I recall we plan to remove it completely, retaining only 'bzr
--version', which is clearly not imperative and follows the regular
convention for getting software versions.
-Rob