X-Spam-Check-By: sourceware.org Content-class: urn:content-classes:message MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Subject: RE: Suggestion: add "setup.exe" version number to Cygwin home page Date: Mon, 19 Jun 2006 16:17:49 -0400 Message-ID: <31DDB7BE4BF41D4888D41709C476B65704168B42@NIHCESMLBX5.nih.gov> In-Reply-To: <9ed806f50606191259t2a1ece34kcff872b9adcfe798@mail.gmail.com> From: "Buchbinder, Barry \(NIH/NIAID\) [E]" To: "Daniel Friedman" , X-IsSubscribed: yes Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help@cygwin.com; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk List-Unsubscribe: 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 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-MIME-Autoconverted: from quoted-printable to 8bit by delorie.com id k5JKI2ij005232 Daniel Friedman wrote: > It would be nice to learn the latest version of the Cygwin setup > program "setup.exe" without having to download and install it. > > Hence I respectfully suggest adding a statement of form "Latest > Cygwin setup.exe version is 2.510.2.2" to http://www.cygwin.com, e.g. > right below the also-helpful "Latest Cygwin DLL release version > is 1.5.19-4" statement. > > Thanks, > --daniel It's my experience that this is not really necessary. setup.ini contains timestamp and version information. When setup.exe has been updated, the version on the local system informs the user that a newer version of setup.exe is available. (I would guess that if one is updating using the automated, command line options one will not be so informed. Of course, that may not be a problem since many of the improvements are in the UI.) - Barry -- 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/