well i must confess i couldnt derive any information from this testnest forum thank you a more simplified version would do
In what way would you want to see this simplified? I don't think it can be simplified? I dived into the code and try to figure out things by tinkering with it.
@Yarkol: I found out for the alerts on my testnet

It's not the client version but effectively the protocol version as mentionned in Bitcoin's alert_test.