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RFU: unison-2.9.1, unison-2.9.20, unison-2.10.2
- From: Andrew Schulman <andrex at alumni dot utexas dot net>
- To: cygwin-apps at cygwin dot com
- Date: Sun, 6 Mar 2005 02:18:56 -0500
- Subject: 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