problems with overloading of the semantics of version number in cygwin/unison

2005-01-06 Thread Richard Lethin
There is a problem with the way that cygwin is updating the version numbers for cygwin/unison. Unison is used to synchronize filesystems; it can cross different operating systems over IP. The protocol uses the version number to decide whether two processes on different systems will communicat

Re: problems with overloading of the semantics of version number in cygwin/unison

2005-01-06 Thread Max Bowsher
Richard Lethin wrote: There is a problem with the way that cygwin is updating the version numbers for cygwin/unison. Unison is used to synchronize filesystems; it can cross different operating systems over IP. The protocol uses the version number to decide whether two processes on different syste

Re: problems with overloading of the semantics of version number in cygwin/unison

2005-01-06 Thread Richard Lethin
Max Bowsher wrote: Richard Lethin wrote: There is a problem with the way that cygwin is updating the version numbers for cygwin/unison. Unison is used to synchronize filesystems; it can cross different operating systems over IP. The protocol uses the version number to decide whether two processes

Re: problems with overloading of the semantics of version number in cygwin/unison

2005-01-06 Thread Andrew Schulman
Hi Richard. I'm the maintainer of Unison for Cygwin. > There is a problem with the way that cygwin is updating the version > numbers for cygwin/unison. Unison is used to synchronize filesystems; > it can cross different operating systems over IP. The protocol uses the > version number to dec

Re: problems with overloading of the semantics of version number in cygwin/unison

2005-01-06 Thread Max Bowsher
Richard Lethin wrote: Max Bowsher wrote: Richard Lethin wrote: There is a problem with the way that cygwin is updating the version numbers for cygwin/unison. Unison is used to synchronize filesystems; it can cross different operating systems over IP. The protocol uses the version number to decide

Re: problems with overloading of the semantics of version number in cygwin/unison

2005-01-06 Thread Richard Lethin
Max Bowsher wrote: Richard Lethin wrote: Max Bowsher wrote: Richard Lethin wrote: There is a problem with the way that cygwin is updating the version numbers for cygwin/unison. Unison is used to synchronize filesystems; it can cross different operating systems over IP. The protocol uses the vers

Re: problems with overloading of the semantics of version number in cygwin/unison

2005-01-06 Thread Andrew Schulman
> Max Bowsher wrote: > > > Richard Lethin wrote: > > > >> Max Bowsher wrote: > >> > >>> Richard Lethin wrote: > >>> > There is a problem with the way that cygwin is updating the version > numbers for cygwin/unison. Unison is used to synchronize filesystems; > it can cross differen