[Unison-hackers] MAC OS issue ... only with the GUI version

[Kevin Ballard]

On Jan 7, 2007, at 9:25 AM, Benjamin Pierce wrote:

>>> For the moment, I think the only solution is to tear down
>>> the OSX GUI binaries and advertise Unison as text-only (or GTK2-
>>> based, if someone is willing to build it) under OSX.
>>
>> Should I stilll propose them on my page, with a note saying they
>> might crash, or remove them altogether?
>>
>> (What I like about the recent version is that I get a GUI to see
>> what the changes are, and they are propagated, even if Unison
>> crashes when it's done. It's an improvement compared to crashing in
>> the middle of propagation.)
>
> I don't like offering people (especially naive users) a program that
> is known to crash.  Also, if we get a lot of people using it, there
> are going to be a lot of questions about when the crashes are going
> to be fixed, but at the moment we have no one actually signed up to
> even think about fixing them.  I agree it's a shame, but I think it's
> really better not to distribute the binaries.

I don't use the OS X GUIs (I prefer text-only, as it's much faster to  
fire off), but I am a Cocoa programmer. What's the problem right now,  
and what do you think it would take to fix?

-- 
Kevin Ballard
http://kevin.sb.org
kevin at sb.org
http://www.tildesoft.com


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