[Unison-hackers] testing/review needed -- PR to restore 2.48 compat

[Greg Troxel]

See:

  https://github.com/bcpierce00/unison/pull/628

for a full of what it does, authorship, etc.  (TÕivo's work).

NB: It is based on the umarshal work, so if you test it, you are *also*
testing umarshal and upgrading your archive rformats.  But you're on
-hackers so you should be able to deal.


A lot of people they are claiming they are stuck on 2.48 everywhere
because they or someone else chooses to run old software on some
machines they use.  This would, if it really works, avoid the logical
inference "one computer has 2.48" => "all must".

However, it hasn't had adequate testing, and people who work on the code
have all converted to 2.51 years ago, and basically aren't personally
interested in anything about 2.48.  So people that care will have to
test.

I am not comfortable merrging untested code, especially for something
that supports a subgroup like 2.48 users.   So if there isn't adequate
testing, it won't get merged.

I expect to send a similar message to -users, after umarshal is merged
and perhaps there is an alpha.

Thanks,
Greg

  
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