[Unison-hackers] [unison-svn] r508 - in trunk: doc src

[Benjamin Pierce]

And then just assume that anybody compiling the beta or developer versions is going to be using OCaml 4?  Yes, that might be a reasonable compromise.

        - B

On Sep 14, 2012, at 11:34, Jerome Vouillon <Jerome.Vouillon at pps.jussieu.fr> wrote:

> Hi Benjamin,
> 
>> * Add a note to the 'new archives not identical' error message
>>  explaining that this can happen because Unison binaries compiled
>>  with OCaml 3 and OCaml 4 are incompatible.
> 
> Maybe we should release a modified stable version of Unison that
> always uses the old hash function? That should not be too much work,
> and should prevent most incompatibility issues.
> 
> As an alternative, the Unison client could try with both hash
> functions, but that's a lot more work to implement. (In particular, we
> would have to include an implementation of the new hash function in
> Unison.)
> 
> What do you think?
> 
> -- Jerome
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