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From: "Max Bowsher" <maxb AT ukf DOT net>
To: "Peter S Tillier" <petert AT eq1152 DOT demon DOT co DOT uk>,
   "Cygwin" <cygwin AT cygwin DOT com>
References: <000201c30915$dcf96180$5c16989e AT oemcomputer>
Subject: Re: Cygwin patch numbers
Date: Tue, 22 Apr 2003 22:41:51 +0100
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Peter S Tillier wrote:
> 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?

I doubt that most Cygwin package maintainers are going to hunt out version
strings and change them - especially since this part of a patch would cause
a conflict every time they started work on a new version.

In any case:

$ cygcheck -c gawk
Cygwin Package Information
Package              Version
gawk                 3.1.2-2

Use -h to see help about each section
$



Max.


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