Date: Fri, 18 Jan 2002 06:59:43 -0500 From: Dan Pelleg <peldan@yahoo.com> To: freebsd-gnats-submit@FreeBSD.org Cc: chrise@scardini.com, freebsd-ports@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: ports/33975: Update port: net/unison to 2.7.7 Message-ID: <15432.3631.613517.425896@gs166.sp.cs.cmu.edu>
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Maintainer note: I didn't go to 2.7.7 because in my opinion the incremental change from 2.7.1 was not significant. Communicating with the PR submitter, I understand the issue with 2.7.7 is that he's synching with a 2.7.7 client on a Linux machine and the only pre-packaged version for that platform is 2.7.7. Note: The Unison dev team does not yet bother to provide protocol compatibility between different versions. This means you need to have all of your unison clients in sync. Therefore what we are really trying to solve here is an application bug. Until the developers address this issue, there will always be users that will want the port to be some particular version because it matches the other versions in their environment. We clearly can't satisfy them all. Furthermore, unison 2.7.39 is currently in beta. From a user report and mailing-list traffic I conclude it is stable and will be released before long. I plan to then upgrade the port to 2.7.39. I don't know if the Debian team will move to 2.7.39 more quickly or slowly than we will. Note that the problem of this particular user will only be solved as long as the Debian and FreeBSD ports of unison are kept in sync. This also goes for us going to 2.7.7 and then them, for example, upgrading to 2.7.39. As far as I'm aware there is no RPM yet. In summary, I have no objection to the 2.7.7 upgrade in itself. But it is my plan to move to 2.7.39 fairly soon. It will require coordinating with the ocaml maintainer so that that port is upgraded to 3.04 together with unison to 2.7.39. This seems like a technical detail - I know 2.7.39 compiles on ocaml 3.04 (but not on 3.02 - current port version). To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-ports" in the body of the message
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