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Reply-To: "Peter S Tillier" <petert AT eq1152 DOT demon DOT co DOT uk>
From: "Peter S Tillier" <petert AT eq1152 DOT demon DOT co DOT uk>
To: "Cygwin" <cygwin AT cygwin DOT com>
Subject: Cygwin patch numbers
Date: Tue, 22 Apr 2003 08:19:20 +0100
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Folks,

I notice that the Cygwin developers use a standard naming convention for
the packages containing, for example gawk and sed.  This convention is
based upon the tool's version number and various patch levels, such as:

 gawk-3.1.2-2.tar.bz2

However when gawk --version is executed the version number only displays
as 3.1.2 (the GNU awk version/patch number).  Would it be possible for
the Cygwin patch number (the -2 above) to be included in the version
number for each tool/package please?


Peter S Tillier
"Who needs perl when you can write dc, sokoban,
arkanoid and an unlambda interpreter in sed?"



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