Re: [ITP] unison2.48

[Yaakov Selkowitz <yselkowitz@cygwin.com>]

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