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 Date: Sun, 7 Aug 2005 22:00:09 -0400 From: Christopher Faylor To: cygwin@cygwin.com Subject: Re: setup.exe filename Message-ID: <20050808020009.GA5026@trixie.casa.cgf.cx> Reply-To: cygwin@cygwin.com References: <42F6A087.A111B257@dessent.net> <20050808002216.E83D813C054@cgf.cx> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20050808002216.E83D813C054@cgf.cx> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.8i On Sun, Aug 07, 2005 at 07:22:19PM -0500, Herb Martin wrote: >> [mailto:cygwin-owner cygwin com] On Behalf Of Brian Dessent ?????????????????????????????? >>I do not like the idea of adding the version to the name of the file. >>To a naive user it would reinforce the incorrect idea that the version >>of setup has anything whatsoever to do with the version of Cygwin and >>other packages that they are installing. We already get too many of >>those on the mailing list as it is. >> >>A user might see "setup-1.2.3" and then later see > >That is a logical and possibly sufficient reason for omitting the >"version" from the CygWin setup file name. Phew! cgf -- 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/