[wp-hackers] Version RPC

[Robert Deaton]

Why not one that returns a serialized array of all the info you need?

On 8/15/05, David House <dmhouse at gmail.com> wrote:
> On 11/08/05, Firas D. <fd at firasd.org> wrote:
> > Putting the version in a nice text response to a GET request instead of
> > shoehorning it into a random RSS feed makes sense for the same reason
> > that, in markup, you'd put an id on an element and select '#id' rather
> > than select '* > html body > td+td p[lang|=fr] span:first-child'. Sure,
> > the latter is elegant and leet, but is brittle and unnecessary.
> 
> Completely agreed. The returned document is 28 bytes. That's hardly
> going to burn a hole in WordPress' wallet in terms of bandwidth usage.
> 
> Just one request: can there be a seperate URL that returns the latest
> stable version number (i.e., '1.5.1.3'), and perhaps even a third with
> the latest stable version string (i.e., '1.5.1.3 Strayhorn branch' or
> whatever)?
> 
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