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> Also the cygwin directory has changed and also tcltk. I changed the directory permissions, not the contents. > After browsing the list I did not find any clue to a new cygwin > version and perhaps a clue that only the md5.sum was regenerated. Cygwin was not updated. > In the past I also found out that sometimes files in the 485-snapshot > subdirectories changed in size but the directory itself kept the old > date. Yup, that's the Unix way. > This does not make it easy to quickly find out if a file has changed. File name and time stamp are the way. > Perhaps an information could be posted to cygwin-announce (or cygwin) > everytime that something has changed in the distribution. If posting a It is! Nothing changed! > Perhaps a small script could be used to make sure that the > directory-date reflects the date of the newest file in a subdirectory. Hmmm, interesting idea, but I wonder what it would do to the mirror programs? > Invent version numbers! Files could be named like that: > bash-2.03-1-cygwin-bin.tar.gz Gee, WE DO THAT. It was discussed long ago, and we all agreed to use that system, and we do. Or, at least, we will for all new releases; the ones from the cdrom don't really have version numbers.
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