X-Spam-Check-By: sourceware.org Message-ID: <461A65A4.2080905@veritech.com> Date: Mon, 09 Apr 2007 12:11:16 -0400 From: LDR <l1ee057 AT veritech DOT com> User-Agent: Thunderbird 1.5.0.10 (Windows/20070221) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com Subject: Re: Setup.exe version @ cygwin.com References: <461A57FE DOT 7030106 AT veritech DOT com> <461A5F85 DOT 1010709 AT cygwin DOT com> In-Reply-To: <461A5F85.1010709@cygwin.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Bogosity: Ham, tests=bogofilter, spamicity=0.000001, version=1.0.1 Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help AT cygwin DOT com; run by ezmlm List-Id: <cygwin.cygwin.com> List-Subscribe: <mailto:cygwin-subscribe AT cygwin DOT com> List-Archive: <http://sourceware.org/ml/cygwin/> List-Post: <mailto:cygwin AT cygwin DOT com> List-Help: <mailto:cygwin-help AT cygwin DOT com>, <http://sourceware.org/ml/#faqs> Sender: cygwin-owner AT cygwin DOT com Mail-Followup-To: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com Delivered-To: mailing list cygwin AT cygwin DOT com Larry Hall (Cygwin) wrote: > LDR wrote: >> Since there seems to be "some traffic" on which version of setup.exe is >> causing (or not) which problems, might it not be a good idea to include >> the version number of setup.exe with the link to the binary on the next >> version of setup.exe? > > This has been discussed before. IMO, I don't think putting the version > anywhere other than the first page of the app is going to help much. If > someone can't find the version on the first page, they are likely to have > problems finding it in the path or executable name. It is a potential > area for a synchronization problem, which would cause more confusion. > At the web site: Cygwin.com! -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/