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 In-Reply-To: <200410010531.i915VL1a014777@a.mail.sonic.net> To: cygwin@cygwin.com MIME-Version: 1.0 Subject: Re: Request for a version/ revision/ release number for the whole Cygwin release/ distribution Message-ID: From: Fred Kulack Date: Fri, 1 Oct 2004 11:52:15 -0500 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="US-ASCII" X-IsSubscribed: yes On 10/01/2004 at 12:31:34 AM, cygwin-owner@cygwin.com wrote: Every O/S and application I've used had a release number for the whole thing; Cygwin should as well. --- end of excerpt --- At a minimum, I think that's quite an oversimplification and perhaps factually untrue? Have you used a Linux distribution for example? There's a single release number, but its really rather meaningless, because the first thing you do is install updates to various packages (possibly including the kernel). That's very similar to cygwin. You have a base version of the cygwin DLL, and version number for each package. I suspect that the best you'll have is to explicitly test and ship your product with a specific version of the packages that you use. -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/