[Unison-hackers] Debian stretch and Unison release

[Benjamin C. Pierce]

Hi Daniel,

2.48 is the latest stable release.  The development trunk is at 2.49, with no huge changes but a few things that would probably be nice to push out into the world (e.g., a preference to treat whole directories atomically).

We should probably plan a beta-release over the summer and push it to stable in the fall.  The only downside, of course, is that 2.49 will be incompatible with 2.48.  (In the longer run, this is something we should really consider fixing.  It would not be trivial, since the assumption that both sides have the same sets of preferences is built into the code pretty deeply, but perhaps there is something simple one could do that would work pretty well — e.g., perhaps some preferences could be marked as affecting only the client, not the server, and differences in these would not cause version incompatibility.)

Best,

   - Benjamin


> On Mar 12, 2016, at 7:37 AM, Daniel Reichelt <nl at nachtgeist.net> wrote:
> 
> (Sorry for double-posting, I confused the -hackers ML address)
> 
> 
> Hi Benjamin, hi Stéphane,
> 
> plenty of time to go, but I was wondering what your plans are for the
> next Unison release. I'm asking because I'd love to see a current
> version being included in the next Debian stable release.
> 
> 
> The schedule according to [1] is:
> 
> [2016-Nov-05] Transition freeze
> [2017-Jan-05] Soft freeze (no new packages, no re-entry, normal migrations)
> [2017-Feb-05] Full freeze
> 
> 
> 
> Thanks
> Daniel
> 
> 
> [1] https://release.debian.org/
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