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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