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On 12/14/2016 4:58 PM, Erik Soderquist wrote:
> On Wed, Dec 14, 2016 at 4:50 PM, cyg Simple <cygsimple AT gmail DOT com> wrote:
>> And if we were purely *nix your argument might hold merit but this setup
>> executable provides a Windows OS based install of a Windows based
>> application set known as Cygwin.
> 
> If we were purely *nix, we wouldn't be on Windows in the first place.
> 
>> The name of the executable has never been a problem; why are you trying
>> to create one?  There are just as many that would keep it simple and
>> leave the name as is.
> 
> I don't recall anyone trying to create a problem so much as find out
> the reasoning behind the decision and ask for the setup executable
> version information to be more accessible than it currently is.  At
> present, it does not appear that the cygwin pages list the current
> setup executable version at all, forcing either an aborted setup run
> when the setup executable itself reports that the setup.ini file
> indicates the currently running executable is outdated, or downloading
> *something* to see if the version of setup available for download has
> changed.

If you that concerned about it you can check the repository tags at
https://cygwin.com/git/gitweb.cgi?p=cygwin-apps/setup.git;a=tags to find
the current released version.

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