Re: unison compatibility in stretch
On Wed, Dec 13, 2017 at 5:44 PM, Tony van der Hoff <lists@vanderhoff.org> wrote:
> On 13/12/17 15:40, Curt wrote:
>> Sorry for butting in once again, but you do have unison-all installed,
>> the metapackage which allows specifically for the -addversionno "kludge" by
>> bringing in versions 2.32 and 2.40 as per the following post curiously
>> similar to your case (two machines, one with Debian Jessie and one with
>> Debian Stretch)
>>
>> https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/233504/how-to-use-multiple-versions-of-unison-on-one-system
>>
>> and then working around the eventual minor version number truncation
>> bug, if indeed it still exists, as per my previous cryptic message.
>>
> I'm fed up with trying bodgy work-arounds, which really should not be
> required. I have now spent so much time on this issue that I've become
> thoroughly disenchanted with Unison (which is great when it works) that
> I'm taking my custom elsewhere.
Do you have a good alternative? I'm fed up with Unison since a long
time, because of such an important tool not handling different
versions, and the impracticality of writing it in yet another
experimental language requiring its own complete little world to build
and run.
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