On 2014/10/16 15:15, Christopher Zimmermann wrote: > On Thu, 16 Oct 2014 13:41:43 +0100 Stuart Henderson <st...@openbsd.org> > wrote: > > > On 2014/10/16 13:38, Christopher Zimmermann wrote: > > > Hi, > > > > > > I keep being asked why unison fails to work since the upgrade to > > > OCaml 4.02. Therefore I'd like to add this piece of information to > > > the install message. > > > > Ugh! > > > > In a previous version, they had this ... > > > > "Update to 2.40.102 > > fixes an incompatibility between a server compiled with ocaml3 and a > > client compiled with ocaml4" > > > > Could something like this be done instead? > > > I guess this was about this svn commit: > > * Use hash function from OCaml 3.x for comparing archives, even when > compiled with OCaml 4.x > > > git-svn-id: https://webdav.seas.upenn.edu/svn/unison/trunk@514 > 4bce34ff-96ee-0310-b826-95abcfff6e26 > > > This does not seem to be about marshalling, but is also a case of relying on > OCaml stdlib functionality that is not meant to be included in portable > protocols. > Sorry to say, but I'm not motivated to fix this design bug of unison. > (would take me about a days work). > > > Christopher > > -- > http://gmerlin.de > OpenPGP: http://gmerlin.de/christopher.pub > F190 D013 8F01 AA53 E080 3F3C F17F B0A1 D44E 4FEE
Ah, OK.
