Incompatible Unison update

Simo Sorce ssorce at redhat.com
Fri Feb 22 14:23:01 UTC 2008


On Fri, 2008-02-22 at 11:12 +0100, Linus Walleij wrote:
> On Thu, 21 Feb 2008, Christopher Aillon wrote:
> 
> > For the record, that sounds dumb and a reason to strongly consider rsync or 
> > something else instead of unison.
> 
> You are so right. Using unison for anything but experimenting and 
> test-driving is not a good idea. It's protocol is changing all the time,
> they obviously cannot keep it stable like rsync does.

Actually the rsync protocol keeps changing, but it is versioned, and
rsync is able to talk to older versions using a minimum common
denominator.

Simo.

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