Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help AT cygwin DOT com; run by ezmlm List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: cygwin-owner AT cygwin DOT com Mail-Followup-To: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com Delivered-To: mailing list cygwin AT cygwin DOT com Message-ID: <2ee1c2b3050807121265a4cb17@mail.gmail.com> Date: Sun, 7 Aug 2005 14:12:29 -0500 From: Weiqi Gao To: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com Subject: Re: setup.exe filename In-Reply-To: <20050807104114.016bdb1d.bpriest@verizon.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=GB2312 Content-Disposition: inline References: <1122420393 DOT 4675 DOT ezmlm AT cygwin DOT com> <20050807104114 DOT 016bdb1d DOT bpriest AT verizon DOT net> X-IsSubscribed: yes Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-MIME-Autoconverted: from base64 to 8bit by delorie.com id j77JCbNJ031595 On 8/7/05, Bill Priest wrote:> > >cygwin.exe or cygwinsetup.exe would both be better names.> >> >If the name of 'setup.exe' was going to change, it would certainly> >need to convey to the user that it is an installation program, so your> >second suggestion might be better. Still, it is common practice to name> >setup programs 'setup' for Windows so making any change is likely to cause> >more confusion than there is now (and based on the list feedback, there> >seems to be very little confusion on this point right now).> > I typically save cygwin's setup.exe to my Desktop as I update cygwin quite> often; however, I've found that this interferes with some other (admittedly buggy> and lame install programs). It isn't a big deal to rename setup.exe to> cygwin_setup.exe (or your favorite) or to do save link as. Can't you just click on the http://cygwin.com/setup.exe link fromwithin IE and say "run"? There's no need to save it anywhere. Thisway you will be always be running the latest and greatest Cygwinsetup.exe. -- Weiqi Gao (¸ßΪÆæ)weiqigao AT gmail DOT comhttp://www.weiqigao.com/blog/