User-agent strings are a good starting point, however they aren't easy for parsing so we'll make a small modification to them.
We need a hierarchy from protocol, variant, gui, flavour,
build
/Satoshi:314700/bitcoin-qt:0.4/
How does that sound? In BitcoinJ's case:
/BitcoinJ:0.2/AndroidBuild:0.8/
Thoughts:
- Do we need a freely defined comments
field?
/BitcoinJ:0.2[iPad; U; CPU OS 3_2_1]/AndroidBuild:0.8/
/Satoshi:314700/bitcoin-qt:0.4[Ubuntu Oneiric]/
From: Christian Decker <decker.christian@gmail.com>
To: Mike Hearn <mike@plan99.net>
Cc: Amir Taaki <zgenjix@yahoo.com>; "bitcoin-development@lists.sourceforge.net" <bitcoin-development@lists.sourceforge.net>
Sent: Saturday, November 5, 2011 2:45 PM
Subject: Re:
[Bitcoin-development] Lock protocol version numbers
On BitDroid I stopped updating the protocol version at 31700 and set the string to be both Version and Client, just like BitcoinJ :-)