Re: More: Compatibility issues

John Rose <[email protected]> writes:

> I want to move ahead now sticking with Ubuntu 22.04 LTS, as it has
> taken me a long time to configure the master computer and I don't want
> to start again with 24.04 LTS.

Makes sense.

> I will thus install Ubuntu 22.04 LTS on the second very similar
> computer and make sure that everything syncs between them with
> 2.51. If I then upgrade one (the designated server) to unison 2.53
> with ocaml 4.13 I will gain better functionality/reliability of the
> server (and thus the whole sync process) without needing to upgrade
> also the client unison package. But if I decide to do an upgrade, it
> would seem surer and not much more complicated to upgrade both
> machines to 2.53 without worrying about ocaml, no?

Yes, if you can install 2.53.4 (or .3) on everything, you'll have no
ocaml version worries and a lot of bugfixes.

> I am not yet sure whether I will attempt this, but would like to see
> how to actually get the tarball to try (not clear from the site you
> recommend, as I see only one mention of ocaml 4.13 in *build_compat
> (4.13.x)*, and I only see descriptions of the builds and no actual
> tarballs).

They are links to download a zip.

> Concerning my legacy Ubuntu 18.04 machine with unison 2.48 ocaml 4.05,
> since there is no way that an upgrade on the other machines can sync
> with it, and no easy way to upgrade two or three LTS steps in Ubuntu,
> I will just leave it aside and manually install its unique
> applications on the two newer computers.

Best to decommission anything from 2018....

> Anyway, congratulations on solving the inter-version compatibility
> problem for the future - it's really a GIANT step.

It wasn't me!  But yes, two other people did, as announced with the
release.

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