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Re: [ITP] unison2.48
- From: Andrew Schulman <schulman dot andrew at epa dot gov>
- To: cygwin-apps at cygwin dot com
- Date: Fri, 05 Jun 2015 21:59:44 -0400
- Subject: Re: [ITP] unison2.48
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> On Fri, 2015-06-05 at 16:16 -0400, Andrew Schulman wrote:
> > > On Fri, 2015-06-05 at 12:06 -0400, Andrew Schulman wrote:
> > > BTW do you have any plans to build the GTK GUI versions?
> >
> > Not immediately. The last time I tried was several years ago, and there was
> > some problem with lablgtk that kept it from working. That was many versions of
> > unison and lablgtk ago, so it would be worth trying again, but only if people
> > want it.
>
> I have had a working lablgtk in Ports for some time now. Have you tried
> that?
No, I haven't looked at it in at least 5 years.
> > For myself, I use command line unison every day, but have no need for the GUI.
> > And there's a Windows native build GUI, which probably meets many users' needs,
> > although not necessarily Cygwin users. So I don't know how many people would
> > want the GTK GUI.
>
> Well, I wouldn't outright replace the CUI version with the GUI (even
> though IIRC the latter can work from the command-line as well with
> DISPLAY unset) due to the additional dependencies, but as a separate
> command it would be a plus.
I always thought the GUI versions would be separate packages - unison2.48gtk,
etc.
I'll poll to find out what the interest is.
Andrew