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From: "David Monk" <david AT purplebear DOT net>
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Subject: Re: frivolous naming suggestion
Date: Thu, 13 Sep 2001 11:11:28 -0500
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> My suggestion is, how about giving the cygwin dll
> releases nicknames for either rush songs ("Tom
> Sawyer", "Hold Your Fire") or stars ("Polaris",
> "Sirius"). I'm not sure anyone is having trouble with
> keeping 1.3.1 and 1.3.3 apart, but if so this might
> help. And, it would give something for people to put
> in /etc/issue if they wanted. :)

If the releases were to begin receiving codenames, similar to how Linux
systems do, it would be nice to follow suit and store the information in a
common file and format, such as /etc/cygwin-release. This would be right
along the lines of RedHat's /etc/redhat-release.

Nice idea! IMHO

David Monk





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