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Date:	Mon, 8 Aug 2005 08:53:11 -0500
From:	Weiqi Gao <weiqigao AT gmail DOT com>
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Subject:	Re: setup.exe filename
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On 8/7/05, Christopher Faylor <cgf-no-personal-reply-please AT cygwin DOT com> wrote:> > Just in case it matters, unless Corinna disagrees, we won't be changing> the name to something other than setup.exe.
Thank you, thank you, thank you.  Stick with setup.exe!  There areprobably tens of thousands of little scripts written that doessomething like:
wget -c http://cygwin.com/setup.exe && ./setup.exe
Changing the name will force all of them to revise the scripts---forno apparent gain!
> The notion that changing> the name to something else will make users understand how to use> setup.exe is not one that I adhere to.
Whatever you change the name to, there will be people complaining. And remember, the users of Cygwin are those who want to use thingslike tr(1), cat(1), awk(1), gcc(1), or even perl(1).  Surely theyunderstand things like the file systems, directory structures, and thenaming of executables.
-- Weiqi Gao (¸ßΪÆæ)weiqigao AT gmail DOT comhttp://www.weiqigao.com/blog/

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