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Re: [PATCH setup] Add setup-minimum-version: to setup.ini


On 2/26/2018 9:02 AM, Jon Turney wrote:
> This allows setup.ini to require a certain setup version, rather than advise
> a newer version when one is available.
> 
> Unfortunately, versions of setup prior to this one don't implement this, but
> at least we have this going forward.
> 
> When we want to start using this, we can break backwards compatibility with
> even older setup in a less clean way, simply by using setup.ini grammar that
> they can't parse.
While you're breaking backward compatibility may I be so bold as to
suggest a change in the name of setup EXE to include the version of
setup?  And then with that change a query to the user to download and
use the newest version of setup?

The change stems from a long standing desire to do just what I've
described.  Since setup knows that it is out of date why force the user
to exit it, go to cygwin.com to download the current version and then
restart that version of setup?  The name change would allow for an easy
method to apply a change to do the download of the newer version from
the older version as it removes the name conflict.

-- 
cyg Simple


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