Turns out that the user directory handling is fairly racey as a bunch
of stuff assumes that the processing happens on master, which it doesn't
when there is a synapse.app.user_dir worker. So lets just call the
function directly until we actually get round to fixing it, since it
doesn't make the situation any worse.
(instead of everywhere that writes a response. Or rather, the subset of places
which write responses where we haven't forgotten it).
This also means that we don't have to have the mysterious version_string
attribute in anything with a request handler.
Unfortunately it does mean that we have to pass the version string wherever we
instantiate a SynapseSite, which has been c&ped 150 times, but that is code
that ought to be cleaned up anyway really.
