Re: unison compatibility in stretch
On 13/12/17 17:29, Anders Andersson wrote:
> 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.
>
As mentioned upthread, "Syncthing" [https://docs.syncthing.net] seems to
do much the same as Unison, hopefully more sensibly. I'm going to give
it a try over the next few days, and I'll report back here.
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