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/ Igor Pechtchanski <pechtcha AT cs DOT nyu DOT edu> wrote:
| Hmm, to simplify it even more, there is no concept of "the entire cygwin
| distribution" :-D  There's only a fluid set of packages, each of which has
| a version.

So basically you can give cygwin a version number based on date or
similar, and thus you can easily (well you probably need hour and
second too in that specification) pull out which versions is set by
which tools.. 

      /Andy

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