[Unison-hackers] Unison Mac

[Alan Schmitt]

(I'm putting the Unison Hacker list in copy of this reply, as there  
are some feature suggestions we should remember for later.)

On 23 nov. 07, at 13:26, Tim Adler wrote:

> Hey there Alan,
>
> I just today discovered your Mac-GUI/build of Unison! I have to say  
> superb work. Since I got a home-mac and laptop-mac I was looking  
> for a fast and reliable solution for synchronizing different  
> directories on those two macs.

Thanks, but I'm mainly building and hosting these. Many people  
contributed to Unison (see the manual for a list).

> All solutions (especially commercial) tend to be either slow,  
> feature-blown or plain ugly regarding their interface.
>
> Your GUI-solution instead looks great, is tremendiously easy to use  
> and because of Unison and SSH is really secure.
> Great work! I especially like the sychronisation-view and the  
> really cool hiding of SSH underneath.
>
> If I may suggest something: I'd be cool to have a way to delete  
> profiles. While setting the thing up, I kept getting back and forth  
> from the Application Support-directory deleting the wrong prf- 
> Files ;)!

The GUI to set up unison synchronization is very simple. The  
recommended method is by editing the .prf files directly.

> Also, in the synchronisation-view, I'd be cool to know which  
> machine/folder "left" and "right" relate to.

The machine is indicated in the window title. But beside the machine  
name, it's true that the full root is not indicated and it could be  
useful to give it somewhere.

> Another thing, and this is rather a help-offer than a suggestion:  
> I'd be cool if there were something like "sync-session", where you  
> could execute several of these Unison-syncs at once. I for example,  
> sync different folders from my home-directories and currently have  
> to click different profiles for that.

If you edit by hand your prf file, you can easily do this: after  
declaring what are the roots, you can add instructions of the form:
path = Documents
path = Desktop

would synchronize the Documents and Desktop folders from both  
machines. You can find similar examples here: http:// 
www.cis.upenn.edu/~bcpierce/unison/download/releases/beta/unison- 
manual.html#minimalprofile

> But I could even understand, if you'd like to keep the thing simple  
> as it is :)
>
> Anyway, even without any new features, this GUI/Tool supersedes any  
> other tool I've tried in the past days. Kudos!
>
> Greets from Germany,
>
> Tim

Thank you for your message,

Alan


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Alan Schmitt <http://alan.petitepomme.net/>

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