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Date:      Fri, 4 Oct 2002 19:12:55 +0200 (CEST)
From:      Henri Dubois-Ferriere <henridf@lcavsun1.epfl.ch>
To:        Ruslan Ermilov <ru@FreeBSD.ORG>
Cc:        Dan Pelleg <dpelleg+unison@cs.cmu.edu>, Kris Kennaway <kris@obsecurity.org>, Henri DF <henri.dubois-ferriere@epfl.ch>, <ports@FreeBSD.ORG>
Subject:   Re: FreeBSD Port: unison-2.9.1
Message-ID:  <Pine.LNX.4.44.0210041908510.12001-100000@lcmpc4.epfl.ch>
In-Reply-To: <20021004170623.GA4170@sunbay.com>

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> >  > > More importantly, I was surprised that the 'official' port would be 2.9.20 
> >  > > which is still the beta version of unison. Is this intentional? 
> >  > 
> >  > You'd have to ask the maintainer, but I assume it is.
> >  > 
> > 
> > It is; 2.9.1 was marked forbidden by ru due do a data-corruption bug (which
> > he experienced and reported to the dev list, btw). He also verified that
> > 2.9.20 fixes the problem.
> > 
> Well, I even suggested the fix, and they implemented it rather quickly.
> I use unison in production, and have not so far seen any problems since
> this critical bug was fixed.  I use 2.9.20 now to synchronize 30G of
> different type of data between 5 machines around the world, concurrently.
> 
> > Since the unison project seems to have lost manpower (the UPenn students
> > having graduated and the project lead turning his attention to other
> > problems), my impression was that waiting for the next stable release would
> > not be productive.
> > 

All makes sense. My first impression on 2.9.20 was poor because of a 
(trivial) bug when i upgraded my linux machines to it, but i didn't 
realize you basically had only the choice between a beta and going back to 
a pre 2.9 release.

So I guess that there is not 'official' policy on putting out betas in 
ports ?

Thanks 
Henri


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