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

[Alan Schmitt]

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