X-Recipient:	archive-cygwin AT delorie DOT com
X-SWARE-Spam-Status:	No, hits=-1.9 required=5.0 tests=AWL,BAYES_00,RCVD_IN_DNSWL_NONE
X-Spam-Check-By:	sourceware.org
X-Mail-Handler:	MailHop Outbound by DynDNS
X-Report-Abuse-To:	abuse AT dyndns DOT com (see http://www.dyndns.com/services/mailhop/outbound_abuse.html for abuse reporting information)
X-MHO-User:	U2FsdGVkX19r54xqVs1T7n+EzYEfCpLm
Date:	Thu, 22 Dec 2011 14:24:30 -0500
From:	Christopher Faylor <cgf-use-the-mailinglist-please AT cygwin DOT com>
To:	cygwin AT cygwin DOT com
Subject:	Re: [ANNOUNCEMENT] CALL FOR TESTING: Cygwin 1.7.10
Message-ID:	<20111222192430.GA20023@ednor.casa.cgf.cx>
Reply-To:	cygwin AT cygwin DOT com
Mail-Followup-To:	cygwin AT cygwin DOT com
References:	<announce DOT 20111206093746 DOT GA6222 AT calimero DOT vinschen DOT de> <4EF2D79D DOT 2020809 AT shaddybaddah DOT name> <20111222092552 DOT GA31936 AT calimero DOT vinschen DOT de> <4EF3027A DOT 7090503 AT shaddybaddah DOT name> <0105D5C1E0353146B1B222348B0411A20A43E78BF2 AT NIHMLBX02 DOT nih DOT gov>
MIME-Version:	1.0
In-Reply-To:	<0105D5C1E0353146B1B222348B0411A20A43E78BF2@NIHMLBX02.nih.gov>
User-Agent:	Mutt/1.5.20 (2009-06-14)
Mailing-List:	contact cygwin-help AT cygwin DOT com; run by ezmlm
List-Id:	<cygwin.cygwin.com>
List-Unsubscribe:	<mailto:cygwin-unsubscribe-archive-cygwin=delorie DOT com AT cygwin DOT com>
List-Subscribe:	<mailto:cygwin-subscribe AT cygwin DOT com>
List-Archive:	<http://sourceware.org/ml/cygwin/>
List-Post:	<mailto:cygwin AT cygwin DOT com>
List-Help:	<mailto:cygwin-help AT cygwin DOT com>, <http://sourceware.org/ml/#faqs>
Sender:	cygwin-owner AT cygwin DOT com
Mail-Followup-To:	cygwin AT cygwin DOT com
Delivered-To:	mailing list cygwin AT cygwin DOT com

On Thu, Dec 22, 2011 at 01:43:03PM -0500, Buchbinder, Barry (NIH/NIAID) [E] wrote:
>Shaddy Baddah sent the following at Thursday, December 22, 2011 5:12 AM
>>At this point, I should make a disclosure. To do this as a
>>non-Administrator grouped user, I must rename setup.exe to cygpkg.exe.
>>This defeats the later Windows releases abilities to automatically
>>detect installer applications by their name, and force privilege
>>elevation. This is something that I have been meaning to open up a
>>discussion about for some time (or may have tried to already, I can't
>>recall), but I'll leave it to stand at the moment.
>
>I would propose that <setup.exe> be renamed on cygwin.com to a name
>lacking "setup", install", "inst", etc., so that one no longer needs
>to jump through this hoop.  If that seems like a good idea, I would
>suggest the name <getcygwin.exe>.

1) This has been suggested before.

2) It's amazing that this thread has stayed on topic for this long.
Please don't hijack it.

--
Problem reports:       http://cygwin.com/problems.html
FAQ:                   http://cygwin.com/faq/
Documentation:         http://cygwin.com/docs.html
Unsubscribe info:      http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple

- Raw text -