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From: Chris Faylor <cgf AT cygnus DOT com>
Date: Mon, 22 May 2000 23:03:14 -0400
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Subject: Re: Next net release will be 1.1.3
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In-Reply-To: <200005230154.VAA00386@envy.delorie.com>; from dj@delorie.com on Mon, May 22, 2000 at 09:54:19PM -0400

On Mon, May 22, 2000 at 09:54:19PM -0400, DJ Delorie wrote:
>OK, let me ask a different question.  If a user is using a snapshot,
>and you later ask them "what version of cygwin1.dll are you using?",
>where do you expect them to get the answer to that?  And, can we
>change *that* spot to tell them it's a snapshot?

At one point you were going to have cygcheck grab the version info
strings from the cygwin DLL.  That would probably be useful.  There
is code in setup.c that could be stolen to do this.

We have enough space in utsname to add an "S" to the version number, too,
if that would help make it clear that a user was running a snapshot.

cgf