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Re: [ITP] unison2.48
- From: Yaakov Selkowitz <yselkowitz at cygwin dot com>
- To: cygwin-apps at cygwin dot com
- Date: Fri, 05 Jun 2015 17:24:27 -0500
- 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?
> 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.
--
Yaakov