[Unison-hackers] Command line arguments and OS X GUI

[Benjamin C. Pierce]

> Should we try then to fix the GUI, or to change the tutorial?

Seems like fixing the GUI is the right thing to do, and probably pretty easy (for someone that knows their way around that code a little)...

    - B


On Jun 28, 2010, at 9:24 AM, Alan Schmitt wrote:

> On 7 mai 2010, at 14:45, Stefan Rank wrote:
> 
>> on Friday 2010-05-07 14:00 Alan Schmitt said the following:
>>> On Fri, May 7, 2010 at 1:35 PM, Stefan Rank<list-ener at strank.info>  wrote:
>> <snip>
>>>> The unison binary that can be installed via the menu option of the
>>>> macnew GUI (to /usr/bin/unison) calls the internal Unison (capital U)
>>>> and accepts command-line arguments here.
>>> 
>>> Yes. And this is where things fail. When I call:
>>> /usr/bin/unison a.tmp b.tmp
>>> as specified in the tutorial, I get the profile chooser. (The other
>>> unison, in my ~/bin directory, is a text only version and works fine.)
>>> 
>>> Note that this has been reported several times by OS X users: some
>>> (most?) command line options work, but specifying the roots like above
>>> does not.
>> 
>> Yes, you're right.
>> (Sorry for not trying exactly what you suggested right at the beginning...)
>> 
>> I just never realised since I am always using profiles, only changing 
>> options, but not directly specifying roots.
>> 
>> It also accepts the version::
>> 
>>  unison -root a -root b
>> 
>> which has the same problem, but it gives an error if you try::
>> 
>>  unison -root
>>  /Applications/Unison.app/Contents/MacOS/Unison: option `-root' needs 
>> an argument.
>> 
>> so the option parsing seems to be ok.
>> I would guess the feature is simply missing from the Mac GUI?
> 
> Should we try then to fix the GUI, or to change the tutorial?
> 
> Alan
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