Re: [PATCH 2/2] emacs: prefer notmuch-emacs-version in User-Agent: header

[Mark Walters <markwalters1009@gmail.com>]

On Sun, 02 Aug 2015, Tomi Ollila <tomi.ollila@iki.fi> wrote:
> Now that we have `notmuch-emacs-version' defined in notmuch emacs MUA
> use that as a part of User-Agent: header to provide more accurate
> version information when sending emails.
>
> In case some incomplete installation of notmuch emacs MUA is used and
> `notmuch-emacs-version' is defined as "unknown" then fall back to ask
> version info from cli (as it used to be before this commit).
>
> Requiring notmuch-version[.elc] and if that is missing setting
> "fallback" notmuch-emacs-version (to "unknown") was moved from
> notmuch.el to notmuch-lib.el as notmuch-mua.el (which provides
> User-Agent: information) require's the latter.
> ---
>
> Note that I did not create notmuch-guess-emacs-version (or something)
> function. The idea is good but there is one HARD problem: naming it.
> Also, I personally suspect that no-one is going to need that function in
> coming years...

This pair of patches look good to me +1. 

Best wishes

Mark

>
>  emacs/notmuch-lib.el | 4 ++++
>  emacs/notmuch-mua.el | 5 ++++-
>  emacs/notmuch.el     | 4 ----
>  3 files changed, 8 insertions(+), 5 deletions(-)
>
> diff --git a/emacs/notmuch-lib.el b/emacs/notmuch-lib.el
> index e16a1b9..201d7ec 100644
> --- a/emacs/notmuch-lib.el
> +++ b/emacs/notmuch-lib.el
> @@ -25,6 +25,10 @@
>  (require 'mm-decode)
>  (require 'cl)
>  
> +(unless (require 'notmuch-version nil t)
> +  (defconst notmuch-emacs-version "unknown"
> +    "Placeholder variable when notmuch-version.el[c] is not available."))
> +
>  (autoload 'notmuch-jump-search "notmuch-jump"
>    "Jump to a saved search by shortcut key." t)
>  
> diff --git a/emacs/notmuch-mua.el b/emacs/notmuch-mua.el
> index 934f6c9..3e52d5e 100644
> --- a/emacs/notmuch-mua.el
> +++ b/emacs/notmuch-mua.el
> @@ -118,7 +118,10 @@ (defun notmuch-mua-user-agent-full ()
>  
>  (defun notmuch-mua-user-agent-notmuch ()
>    "Generate a `User-Agent:' string suitable for notmuch."
> -  (concat "Notmuch/" (notmuch-cli-version) " (http://notmuchmail.org)"))
> +  (let ((notmuch-version (if (string= notmuch-emacs-version "unknown")
> +			     (notmuch-cli-version)
> +			   notmuch-emacs-version)))
> +    (concat "Notmuch/" notmuch-version " (http://notmuchmail.org)")))
>  
>  (defun notmuch-mua-user-agent-emacs ()
>    "Generate a `User-Agent:' string suitable for notmuch."
> diff --git a/emacs/notmuch.el b/emacs/notmuch.el
> index 6564816..5284e77 100644
> --- a/emacs/notmuch.el
> +++ b/emacs/notmuch.el
> @@ -61,10 +61,6 @@
>  (require 'notmuch-message)
>  (require 'notmuch-parser)
>  
> -(unless (require 'notmuch-version nil t)
> -  (defconst notmuch-emacs-version "unknown"
> -    "Placeholder variable when notmuch-version.el[c] is not available."))
> -
>  (defcustom notmuch-search-result-format
>    `(("date" . "%12s ")
>      ("count" . "%-7s ")
> -- 
> 1.9.3