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RFU: unison-2.9.1, unison-2.9.20, unison-2.10.2


Back in January I raised the problem on this list that different versions of 
the Unison package are mutually incompatible 
(http://sourceware.org/ml/cygwin-apps/2005-01/msg00028.html).  It turns out 
that by the design of Unison, if you are running, for example, version 2.10.2 
and attempt to synchronize with a server running version 2.9.20, Unison will 
issue an error message about incompatible versions and quit.  This design 
choice was apparently made to safeguard against possible changes in both the 
network protocol and archive formats between versions of Unison.  Whatever 
one thinks about the wisdom of that decision, it is something that Unison 
users will have to live with, since major development of Unison has now 
ceased.

There are at least three different versions of Unison in common use (current 
stable, and previous and current beta releases), and a new stable version 
will probably be released soon.  Unfortunately, users may not have a choice 
about which version they use-- if they don't control the server they want to 
synchronize with, they have to use whatever version it's running.

Therefore, in order to provide the most utility to Cygwin users, I've decided 
to split the existing unison package into three new packages: unison-2.9.1, 
unison-2.9.20, and unison-2.10.2.  The package URLs are below.  Note that 
Debian includes unison 2.9.1, while versions 2.9.20 and 2.10.2 are already 
provided in the existing Cygwin unison package.

Please also move the existing unison package into the "removed" category.  
That package is now deprecated.

Thanks,
Andrew.

URLs:

http://home.comcast.net/~andrex/cygwin/unison-2.9.1/setup.hint
http://home.comcast.net/~andrex/cygwin/unison-2.9.1/unison-2.9.1-2.9.1-1.tar.bz2
http://home.comcast.net/~andrex/cygwin/unison-2.9.1/unison-2.9.1-2.9.1-1-src.tar.bz2

http://home.comcast.net/~andrex/cygwin/unison-2.9.20/setup.hint
http://home.comcast.net/~andrex/cygwin/unison-2.9.20/unison-2.9.20-2.9.20-1.tar.bz2
http://home.comcast.net/~andrex/cygwin/unison-2.9.20/unison-2.9.20-2.9.20-1-src.tar.bz2

http://home.comcast.net/~andrex/cygwin/unison-2.10.2/setup.hint
http://home.comcast.net/~andrex/cygwin/unison-2.10.2/unison-2.10.2-2.10.2-1.tar.bz2
http://home.comcast.net/~andrex/cygwin/unison-2.10.2/unison-2.10.2-2.10.2-1-src.tar.bz2


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