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-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ To: cygwin@cygwin.com From: Andrew Markebo Subject: Re: Cygwin distribution versioning Date: Sun, 16 Mar 2003 21:02:01 +0100 Lines: 14 Message-ID: References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Complaints-To: usenet@main.gmane.org User-Agent: Gnus/5.090016 (Oort Gnus v0.16) Emacs/21.2 (gnu/linux) Cancel-Lock: sha1:BttOnGO9w6Lc+TxDbkgXF18nlJk= / Igor Pechtchanski wrote: | 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. So basically you can give cygwin a version number based on date or similar, and thus you can easily (well you probably need hour and second too in that specification) pull out which versions is set by which tools.. /Andy -- The eye of the beholder rests on the beauty! -- 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/