[Unison-hackers] 2.39 bugs

Jerome Vouillon Jerome.Vouillon at pps.jussieu.fr
Fri Jan 8 05:55:00 EST 2010


On Thu, Jan 07, 2010 at 09:01:01PM -0500, Benjamin Pierce wrote:
> Couple of small things with 2.39:
> 
> When I run with the OSX GUI, I get this message:
> 
> Thread 5 killed on uncaught exception Util.Fatal("Warning:  
> incompatible case sensitivity settings.
> Unison is currently in Unicode case insensitive mode,
> while the archives were created in Latin-1 case insensitive mode.
> You should either change Unison's setup or delete
> the following archives
> 
> Problem 1: It doesn't tell which archives to delete!
> 
> Problem 2: I get this message in the console, not the GUI.
> 
> I guess the second is an older problem.

That's two sides of a same problem.  Some exception are not caught.
They are thus printed on the console by the Caml runtime.  As the
runtime format the message in a 256 bytes buffer, the message gets
truncated.

Hopefully, this is fixed now.

-- Jerome


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