On Sun 22/09/2019 16:10, Christopher Zimmermann wrote:
> On Sat, 21 Sep 2019 09:35:50 +0100
> Laurence Tratt <lau...@tratt.net> wrote:
>
> > On Sat, Sep 21, 2019 at 09:06:16AM +0200, Christopher Zimmermann
> > wrote:
> >
> > Hello Christopher,
> >
> > >> Since other people might be affected by this, it looks like OCaml
> > >> has changed the marshalling format or similar (again...), so
> > >> Unison from -current is now incompatible with -stable. I doubt
> > >> there's anything we can do about this except, perhaps, a) add a
> > >> warning to the upgrade page b) maybe expand pkg/README to spell
> > >> out the commands needed to install Unison via OPAM.
> > > That's what I would recommend in pkg/README:
> > >
> > > $ OPAMROOT=~/opam_unison
> > > $ opam init --compiler 4.02.3
> > > $ opam install unison
> > > $ ${OPAMROOT}/4.02.3/bin/unison
> > >
> > > Would you mind testing it ?
> >
> > That works for me, with one small caveat -- since it builds the GUI
> > flavour (I must admit, I'd forgotten that Unison has a GUI!), it does
> > require the system to have gtk+2 installed. So it might be worth
> > mentioning that. Otherwise, I think those steps are very helpful --
> > thanks!
>
> OK?
Makes sense. Please bump REVISION in 2.4x/Makefile, and 2.5x/Makefile.
OK bket@
