Mail Archives: cygwin/2008/03/06/11:31:49
On Thu, Mar 06, 2008 at 04:07:00PM +0100, Paul-Kenji Cahier wrote:
>>?On Thu, Mar 06, 2008 at 12:43:41PM +0100, Peter Klavins wrote:
>>>1. Since my downloads directory may contain many files, amongst which
>>>other generic setup.exe's, could the cygwin setup program be changed to
>>>something more related to cygwin, e.g., cygsetup.exe? That would fit
>>>well with other cygwin bits like cyg*.dll and cyg*.exe. At the moment
>>>the only hint that it belongs to cygwin is its icon, which you only see
>>>if you're looking at it with Explorer.
>
>>?No, we're not going to change the name of the program. It's been called
>>?setup.exe for many years and changing the name now would be guaranteed
>>?to generate confusion.
>I will have to agree that setup.exe is one of the most
>common filenames and it's very confusing to keep it that way.
>
>However obviously cygwin seems anchored in backward compatibility
>(which is not such a bad policy) so I doubt this is going to change.
I mentioned why we are not going to change and Dave Korn provided much
more detail. This is only "backwards compatibility" in the broadest
sense. This is not a debate. It really is not going to change.
>Peter Klavins: What you should do is rename it at download time.
>
>>?If mixing cygwin downloads with other downloads is causing you confusion
>>?then the obvious thing to do is to use another directory.
>Managing files without icons is not that uncommon.
>Confusion will of course arise in these cases.
I have no idea what this means. Just create a shortcut to
http://cygwin.com/setup.exe and put it on your desktop. Create a
directory just for cygwin downloads. Click on the shortcut when you
want to update and make sure that you set the download area to your
newly created directory.
cgf
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