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

[cyg Simple]

On 2/27/2018 10:32 AM, Marco Atzeri wrote:
> On 27/02/2018 15:32, cyg Simple wrote:
>> On 2/26/2018 12:45 PM, Jon Turney wrote:
> 
>> I'll take a look at your reference and provide comment under a different
>> response.  However, not versioning the file isn't something I am
>> promoting as I am of the belief that the delivered executable should
>> have a version attached to its name.
>>
> 
> please not add version to the setup executable name.
> 
> Some of us are using the setup through link or batch
> to automatically select some preferred configuration.
> 
> Adjusting them every time we update the setup program
> has no added value.

That point was already addressed by Jon and my retort was that the issue
could be resolved by supplying a symlink for the name without the version.

>>
>> This will break more than backwards compatibility with old versions
>> of setup, but also any scripts that do 'wget -N
>> https://cygwin.com/setup-x86_64.exe', or equivalent.
>>

> Easily remedied by a symlink to the current version.  Many packages
> have such a link as an aid to such scripts.

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cyg Simple