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Re: RFU: unison-2.9.1, unison-2.9.20, unison-2.10.2
- From: Brian Dessent <brian at dessent dot net>
- To: cygwin-talk at cygwin dot com
- Date: Sun, 06 Mar 2005 00:06:09 -0800
- Subject: Re: RFU: unison-2.9.1, unison-2.9.20, unison-2.10.2
- Organization: My own little world...
- References: <200503060218.56944.andrex@alumni.utexas.net>
- Reply-to: Talk Amongst Yourselves <cygwin-talk at cygwin dot com>
Andrew Schulman wrote:
[I recall reading these threads when the issue were first brought up.
However, at that point the notion of having a separate package for each
version of the program sounded so far fetched...]
> 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.
Wow... that's just so... wow.
How could any rational software developer think that such a policy makes
a lick of sense?
> This design
> choice was apparently made to safeguard against possible changes in both the
> network protocol and archive formats between versions of Unison.
Could someone airdrop a clue here? Shouldn't it be a trivial
realization that the wire protocol, archive format, and program version
could be different things?
Brian