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Re: Should the default value of url-user-agent include a version number?


From: Sebastian Wiesner
Subject: Re: Should the default value of url-user-agent include a version number? What about the specific case of package.el?
Date: Thu, 24 Mar 2016 21:22:17 +0100

> Am 24.03.2016 um 20:03 schrieb Stefan Monnier <address@hidden>:
> 
>> (Stefan, for example, your emails are tagged with "Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13)
>> Emacs/25.1.50 (gnu/linux)").  Has there been complaints about Gnus
>> doing that?
> 
> I never liked it, but admittedly, I never complained about it.

May I ask why you do not like this behaviour? What stands against it?

>        Stefan
> 
> 
> PS: I could go along with package.el sending the Emacs version in the
> user-agent (tho I don't think the OS info belongs there and AFAIK most
> ELPA packages don't care about the OS either).

Not many do care, for sure, but to those that do this information is all the 
more important.

Speaking on behalf of Flycheck we'd love to have statistics about OS 
distribution among our
users, so much that I thought about adding opt-in Google Analytics tracking to 
Flycheck for
this purpose.  Currently we have literally no idea what people use and how much 
effort we 
should put into support for particular systems (Windows specifically), and we 
have no way to
find out.




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