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Date: Wed, 23 Apr 2003 15:31:00 +0200
From: Corinna Vinschen <corinna-cygwin AT cygwin DOT com>
To: Cygwin <cygwin AT cygwin DOT com>
Subject: Re: Cygwin patch numbers
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On Tue, Apr 22, 2003 at 08:19:20AM +0100, 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?

Why should packages on Cygwin show another version number than the same
package on e. g. Linux?  For instance the grep package:

linux$ rpm -q grep
grep-2.4.2-6
linux$ grep --version
grep (GNU grep) 2.4.2
[...]

Corinna

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