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From: Steven Fisher on 27 Jan 2010 12:03
In article <hjpqmv$bfl$1(a)news.eternal-september.org>,
johnny bobby bee <stepore-no_spam_eh(a)gmail.com> wrote:

> Gorril took to the world wide interwebs to proclaim:
> > I use Unison because the UI is good. It is a shame about the quality of
> > the code under the hood. Since it is a long standing problem one must
> > wonder why it hasn't been fixed.
>
> Hasn't development on Unison stopped long ago?

No, there's been a lot of work on it lately. It still doesn't work for
me (doesn't like my news server), but it's no longer stagnant.


Steve
From: David Rogoff on 27 Jan 2010 12:09
On 2010-01-27 08:47:27 -0800, johnny bobby bee said:

> Gorril took to the world wide interwebs to proclaim:
>> I use Unison because the UI is good. It is a shame about the quality of
>> the code under the hood. Since it is a long standing problem one must
>> wonder why it hasn't been fixed.
>
> Hasn't development on Unison stopped long ago?


No - A major release with tons of changes and new features just came out.

From: gtr on 4 Feb 2010 13:44
On 2010-01-26 17:21:16 -0800, Gorril said:

> On 2010-01-26 16:29:27 +1000, Ed Kual <edkual(a)gmail.com> said:
>
>> I am a new immigrant to Mac after using windows for many years. On windows
>> I use Xnews as my binary news reader/downloader which was small and easy to
>> use. On Mac I have found Unison nice and easy to use except that it freezes
>> quite frequently (rotatinf color wheel) and I need to force quit it. This
>> happens with versions 1.8, 2, and 2.3 under SL. I was wondering if others
>> have experienced the same problem and how it can be solved.
>>
>> Thanks
>
> Unison's developers simply don't understand multi threaded programming.
> I doubt that this problem is fixable without a complete rewrite of
> the application.

Dang that was a quick conclusion. I wonder who's gonna give them the bad news.
--
Dogmatism kills jazz. Iconoclasm kills rock. Rock dulls scissors.

From: gtr on 4 Feb 2010 20:08
On 2010-02-04 11:49:56 -0800, Michael Vilain said:

>> Dang that was a quick conclusion. I wonder who's gonna give them the bad
>> news.
>
> Doubt they give a rat's rectum. Admittedly, they don't use newsgroups.
> Hence the utter lack of useful filters making the product a joke. Why
> are you giving these clowns any money?

It's calculated this way: I pay them for what their product does for
me, rather than what it doesn't do for you.
--
Dogmatism kills jazz. Iconoclasm kills rock. Rock dulls scissors.

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