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! Laurie