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 Message-ID: <2ee1c2b305080806533f937040@mail.gmail.com> Date: Mon, 8 Aug 2005 08:53:11 -0500 From: Weiqi Gao To: cygwin@cygwin.com Subject: Re: setup.exe filename In-Reply-To: <20050808045629.GA8474@trixie.casa.cgf.cx> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=GB2312 Content-Disposition: inline References: <1122420393.4675.ezmlm@cygwin.com> <20050807104114.016bdb1d.bpriest@verizon.net> <008a01c59bd3$e9117f90$0200000a@agamemnon> <20050808045629.GA8474@trixie.casa.cgf.cx> X-IsSubscribed: yes Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-MIME-Autoconverted: from base64 to 8bit by delorie.com id j78DrMZw022575 On 8/7/05, Christopher Faylor wrote:> > Just in case it matters, unless Corinna disagrees, we won't be changing> the name to something other than setup.exe. Thank you, thank you, thank you. Stick with setup.exe! There areprobably tens of thousands of little scripts written that doessomething like: wget -c http://cygwin.com/setup.exe && ./setup.exe Changing the name will force all of them to revise the scripts---forno apparent gain! > The notion that changing> the name to something else will make users understand how to use> setup.exe is not one that I adhere to. Whatever you change the name to, there will be people complaining. And remember, the users of Cygwin are those who want to use thingslike tr(1), cat(1), awk(1), gcc(1), or even perl(1). Surely theyunderstand things like the file systems, directory structures, and thenaming of executables. -- Weiqi Gao (¸ßΪÆæ)weiqigao@gmail.comhttp://www.weiqigao.com/blog/