Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help@cygwin.com; run by ezmlm List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: cygwin-owner@cygwin.com Mail-Followup-To: cygwin@cygwin.com Delivered-To: mailing list cygwin@cygwin.com X-Authentication-Warning: slinky.cs.nyu.edu: pechtcha owned process doing -bs Date: Sun, 16 Mar 2003 13:39:07 -0500 (EST) From: Igor Pechtchanski Reply-To: cygwin@cygwin.com To: Tim Largy cc: cygwin@cygwin.com Subject: Re: Cygwin distribution versioning In-Reply-To: Message-ID: Importance: Normal MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII 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. Igor On Sun, 16 Mar 2003, Tim Largy wrote: > I've answered my own question. There is no concept of versioning for the > entire cygwin distribution (source: the cygwin FAQ). > > Tim Largy wrote: > > When discussing cygwin issues, how does one identify the version of > > his/her cygwin distribution? The "setup.log" file created by the cygwin > > installer gives the version of the installer itself, as well as the > > version of each installed package, but what about an overall version for > > the distribution? > > > > Tim -- http://cs.nyu.edu/~pechtcha/ |\ _,,,---,,_ pechtcha@cs.nyu.edu ZZZzz /,`.-'`' -. ;-;;,_ igor@watson.ibm.com |,4- ) )-,_. ,\ ( `'-' Igor Pechtchanski '---''(_/--' `-'\_) fL a.k.a JaguaR-R-R-r-r-r-.-.-. Meow! Oh, boy, virtual memory! Now I'm gonna make myself a really *big* RAMdisk! -- /usr/games/fortune -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Bug reporting: http://cygwin.com/bugs.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/