[Unison-hackers] Unison 2.27 promoted to stable

[Benjamin Pierce]

> On Sun, Apr 01, 2007 at 11:23:46PM -0400, Benjamin Pierce wrote:
>> Version 2.27 appears to be working well, so I have promoted it to
>> "stable" status.  I'll wait a few days before announcing it to the
>> world, to give people time to build binaries and shake out any
>> remaining issues...
>
> Still has the same issues on OpenBSD as the 2.26:
>
> 	1. Creates backup in text UI although I do not have the backups
> 	   set in the preferences.  I'll send the trace to Benjamin off
> 	   the list.

Looks like 2.27 is backing up current versions of all files that have  
the 'merge' preference set.  I agree that this is counter-intuitive  
(the backupcurrent option is available for requesting backups of  
current versions) and will change it.

> 	2. Does not have gtk1 GUI in the Makefile, so I couldn't compile
> 	   the GUI version to test it.  OpenBSD does not have lablgtk2
> 	   port, only lablgtk.  Lablgtk2 causes a segmentation fault
> 	   when compiled.  Does Unison still have any chance to build
> 	   with lablgtk?  Notice that 2.13 and 2.17 did build fine with
> 	   that GUI.

Working on this...

    - B