From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Sebastian Wiesner Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel 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 Message-ID: References: <56F42269.10400@gmail.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 (Mac OS X Mail 9.2 \(3112\)) Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1458850959 23078 80.91.229.3 (24 Mar 2016 20:22:39 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Thu, 24 Mar 2016 20:22:39 +0000 (UTC) Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org To: Stefan Monnier Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Thu Mar 24 21:22:31 2016 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([208.118.235.17]) by plane.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1ajBm2-0004UB-OZ for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Thu, 24 Mar 2016 21:22:30 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:52599 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1ajBm1-0003fd-Sm for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Thu, 24 Mar 2016 16:22:29 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:53714) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1ajBly-0003fK-5J for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 24 Mar 2016 16:22:26 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1ajBlu-00038n-V6 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 24 Mar 2016 16:22:26 -0400 Original-Received: from mx2.mailbox.org ([80.241.60.215]:35080) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1ajBlu-00038W-PD for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 24 Mar 2016 16:22:22 -0400 Original-Received: from smtp1.mailbox.org (smtp1.mailbox.org [80.241.60.240]) (using TLSv1.2 with cipher ECDHE-RSA-AES256-GCM-SHA384 (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by mx2.mailbox.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id A6E38420D2; Thu, 24 Mar 2016 21:22:20 +0100 (CET) X-Virus-Scanned: amavisd-new at heinlein-support.de Original-Received: from smtp1.mailbox.org ([80.241.60.240]) by hefe.heinlein-support.de (hefe.heinlein-support.de [91.198.250.172]) (amavisd-new, port 10030) with ESMTP id O2RhziWzvimi; Thu, 24 Mar 2016 21:22:19 +0100 (CET) In-Reply-To: X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.2.x-3.x [generic] X-Received-From: 80.241.60.215 X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.14 Precedence: list List-Id: "Emacs development discussions." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:202193 Archived-At: > Am 24.03.2016 um 20:03 schrieb Stefan Monnier = : >=20 >> (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? >=20 > 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 >=20 >=20 > 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=20 should put into support for particular systems (Windows specifically), = and we have no way to find out.