[wp-hackers] On Subversion and 2.5.x-alpha not being in Trunk

[Joseph Scott]

On May 16, 2008, at 1:11 AM, Alexander Beutl wrote:

>>
>> I'd suggest having:
>>
>>        http://api.wordpress.org/current-version/1.0/
>>
>> That would return one line that contained just the version string,  
>> if it
>> were in place today it would return: 2.5.1
>
>
> I don't know if that one is new but take a look at:
>
> http://api.wordpress.org/core/version-check/1.1/
>
> which will return the current version in the 3rd line.
> Just if this is any help  for anyone...
>
> I would like to see a "stable"-Tag or "stable"-Branch too.
> Even if this is a second line one would need to write....
> Wouldn't be comlex to setup some shellscript to do it with only one  
> call


I think version 1.1 of the version-check URL is new.  Either way,  
happy to see it, getting the third line is easy enough.

The branch data would be handy as well, even if it was just part of a  
1.2 version for version-check that included the branch data on the  
4th line.

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