Re: [PATCH] Re: How to find the NM version?

[Dan Williams <dcbw redhat com>]

On Wed, 2010-09-22 at 16:46 +0200, Jirka Klimes wrote:
> On Wednesday 23 of September 2009 06:40:03 Dan Williams wrote:
> > On Tue, 2009-09-22 at 17:44 -0700, Raj Sidh wrote:
> > > Hello,
> > > 
> > > I find that some NetworkManager dbus APIs are of older version in some
> > > distros (e.g. Ubuntu 8.04) whereas Fedora 9 seems to have what is listed
> > > under http://projects.gnome.org/NetworkManager/developers/spec.html
> > > which apparently is 0.7.0. How do I determine what version of NM I am
> > > running so I can make right choices (bus.GetDevices() vs.
> > > bus.getDevices() and similar) ?
> > 
> > Programmatically, you can use some tricks to figrue it out like you
> > mention, but Tambet also proposed the addition of a Version property on
> > the /org/freedesktop/NetworkManager base object that we can add to both
> > 0.7.2 and 0.8+.
> > 
> > 0.7.0 vs. 0.7.1 shouldn't be difference to care about, it's mostly
> > between 0.6, 0.7, and 0.8.
> > 
> > Dan
> > 
> 
> I think Version property is really helpful. I don't know whether a patch 
> exists. Anyway, I'm attaching a patch to add the property.

Looks good, please push it to 0.8 and master.

Thanks!
Dan