[augeas-devel] RFC: Augeas version api?

[David Lutterkort]

On Fri, 2009-01-16 at 10:48 -0500, Bryan Kearney wrote:
> Just thinking ahead, with new features being added it may be nice to 
> check the verison before executing them. What would you all think of 
> either a aug_version() call on the augeas object which reads from 
> /augeas/version?
> 
> This would allow you to check from within the tree, or the api directly, 
> and do branch processing.

That would be easy enough to do (probably one or two lines in aug_init)
- though I suspect version info isn't _really_ what you're after, but a
more finegrained way to inquire about 'features', such as whether noop
mode for save is supported, right ?

David