On Thu, 18 Aug 2005, Viv Kendon wrote:
I note the following things about the new version of unison (all have work
arounds but some are annoying):
1. The buttons in the button bar (like skip, merge left) don't reset when
you've clicked them unless you remove the mouse and return it. This is
annoying if you are working through a list of files that all need the same
choice. Workaround is to use the hot keys instead (except I'm not sure there
is a hot key for "skip").
2. The same colour bug as in the previous version is still present: if you
select "ignore path" from the menus for a highlighted entry, all the blue
actions are coloured green when it redraws the screen (blue means you changed
the unison default action).
An amendment to this now that I've played around a bit
more...
3. It won't let me sync a bunch of files that worked fine under unison 2.9.1
that have names that are OK under unix but illegal under Windows. It claims
they are also illegal under MacOS but they've never caused me trouble...an
example is abel.lsr.ph.ic.ac.uk_DISPLAY=:0 I never sync with Windows
This "feature" seems to have gone away after I read the
changelog that states that it has been "fixed" not to do it
in this version of unison. OK, so I also set a couple of
other options in my default.prf file, but none of them
seemed relevant to the issue. Baffled but happy since it
now works how I want...
4. The new feature that opens a window for entering your
server password instead of entering it on the command line
where unison was invoked is not entirely robust. I spent an
hour staring at debug output but could not figure out why it
is failing between my mac and a linux server. Somehow
unison is failing to capture or recognise the "password"
prompt and act on it. Never see the prompt in the debug
output. Works fine between two macs with the same ssh setup
on both. Works fine when I run the ssh command by hand.
Baffled, and have reverted to unison-2.9.1 for this sync
(copied the binary out of the deb file into ~/bin).
I'm reporting these things because it suggests maybe it
would be good if unison 2.9.1 was still available through
fink until 2.10.2 is more stable? Like the way we have more
than one version of xfig and gs that mutually replace each
other?
-- Viv
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Quantum Information tel: 0113 343 3858
Physics & Astronomy University of Leeds
http://quantum.leeds.ac.uk/~viv
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