unison and protocol breakage

[Paul Guyot]

I'd say the good strategy is to have the ubiquitous version. At some  
point I synchronized the version of unison with the version available  
with FreeBSD ports because it's what I used on the other end. On the  
other hand, debian/stable is lagging so much that they probably  
should not be considered as a reference.

Paul

Le 17 févr. 08 à 14:36, Kevin Ballard a écrit :

> No, the solution here is to not do anything. Anybody using 2.13 needs
> to upgrade if they want to work with 2.27. We are not in the business
> of providing old port versions, and we *should not* be.
>
> If you're using debian/stable, just install unison 2.27 yourself. IIRC
> the default location is $HOME/bin, so you don't need to do *any* work
> to install it besides download the source and build it. Presumably you
> have ocaml installed already.
>
> -Kevin Ballard
>
> On Feb 16, 2008, at 8:18 PM, Vincent Lefevre wrote:
>
>> The unison port has recently been upgraded from 2.13 to 2.27. The
>> problem is that the protocol has changed between these versions,
>> and unison 2.13 can't talk to unison 2.27:
>>
>>  http://trac.macosforge.org/projects/macports/ticket/14172
>>
>> The only solution that can work in every case (because users may need
>> to do synchronization with machines that only have 2.13 and machines
>> that only have 2.27) is to install the two binaries: unison-2.13 and
>> unison-2.27 (note: when executing the remote unison binary, unison  
>> can
>> automatically add its main version number thanks to the addversionno
>> option). So, I think that the best solution is to have a port for the
>> old version unison 2.13 (BTW, this is what Debian does for the 2.9
>> version and will probably do for the 2.13 version), which installs
>> only
>> the unison-2.13 binary (alternatively, there could be a variant that
>> installs a "unison" binary too for those who don't need unison 2.27).
>> In this case, what should the name of the port be? unison-2.13?
>> unison2.13?
>>
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