From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: (from weis@localhost) by pauillac.inria.fr (8.7.6/8.7.3) id WAA26545 for caml-red; Tue, 26 Sep 2000 22:13:54 +0200 (MET DST) Received: from nez-perce.inria.fr (nez-perce.inria.fr [192.93.2.78]) by pauillac.inria.fr (8.7.6/8.7.3) with ESMTP id VAA29604 for ; Tue, 26 Sep 2000 21:47:44 +0200 (MET DST) Received: from saul.cis.upenn.edu (SAUL.CIS.UPENN.EDU [158.130.12.4]) by nez-perce.inria.fr (8.10.0/8.10.0) with ESMTP id e8QJlhD11916 for ; Tue, 26 Sep 2000 21:47:43 +0200 (MET DST) Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by saul.cis.upenn.edu (8.10.1/8.10.1) with SMTP id e8QJlg003434 for ; Tue, 26 Sep 2000 15:47:42 -0400 (EDT) To: caml-list@inria.fr Subject: Unison file synchronizer -- new stable release Reply-to: bcpierce@cis.upenn.edu Date: Tue, 26 Sep 2000 15:47:42 EDT Message-ID: <3432.969997662@saul.cis.upenn.edu> From: "Benjamin C. Pierce" Sender: weis@pauillac.inria.fr We are pleased to announce a new release of Unison, a file synchronization utility for Unix and Windows systems written entirely in OCaml. The Unison homepage, including extensive documentation, pre-compiled binaries for Linux, Solaris, and Windows, and (GPL'd) sources can be found here: http://www.cis.upenn.edu/~bcpierce/unison Unison allows two copies of a collection of files and directories to be stored on different hosts (or different disks on the same host), modified separately, and then brought up to date by propagating the changes in each replica to the other. Unison can deal with updates to both replicas of a distributed directory structure. Updates that do not conflict are propagated automatically; conflicting updates are detected and displayed. Unison can communicate through a direct socket link or through an rsh/ssh tunnel. The most important improvement since the last major release (last July) is an implementation of the "rsync protocol" for diffs-only transmission of small changes to large files. Announcements of major new releases are posted _very occasionally_ in public forums. To stay up to date with all release announcements, subscribe to our (moderated, low-volume) mailing list by visiting http://www.egroups.com/subscribe/unison-announce. Enjoy, The Unison team (Jerome Vouillon, Trevor Jim, and Benjamin Pierce)