Thread: Unison - Powerful file synchronization.
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strank is offline strank
2010-08-11 , 09:41
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#30
Originally Posted by soeiro View Post
How are you guys handling the problem of "different versions"?

You have a versio on your desktop and and older version on the N900. They don't talk to each other...

I have even suggested the author (upstream) to try to handle this situation, but I don't even know if he has read my message.
In order for unison client and server to talk to each other, the minor version has to match (for my binary posted above: 2.38). The reason for a version change is usually a change in the network protocol and/or unison-internal files.

In practice, that means that you need to update unison on all your machines at the same time, and that's also why I prefer a single binary on my local path rather than a repository where selecting a specific version is not intuitive. Not that I would mind if someone manages to get an automated build infrastructure for OCaml+GTK working...