Re: new quake3-info script

[David Fifield <david () bamsoftware com>]

On Thu, Sep 22, 2011 at 02:19:32AM +0300, Toni Ruottu wrote:
> We would need to collect lots of version lines first to see the
> different formats. Here are the two I got from my servers.
> version: tremulous 1.1.0 linux-x86_64 Aug  5 2010
> version: ioq3 1.36+svn1933-1/Ubuntu linux-x86_64 Apr  4 2011
>
> I think Debian in your case and Ubuntu above are parts of the software
> version number and not operating system identifiers. We know that the
> protocol is quake3. It seems safe to assume that the first part is the
> product name, and the second part is the version number. I would
> prefer to leave Ubuntu or Debian as a part of the version number. It
> might make sense to look at the product name first and parse the rest
> based on that. In that case we would only register version information
> for the products explicitly mentioned in the script. At least I need
> to find out what Windows servers look like before implementing this
> feature.

Don't overthink it. Just split on whitespace and set product = $1,
version = $2, and grep $3 for "linux" to set ostype. If it turns out not
to work for some servers, then we can fix it.

David FIfield
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