setup.exe filename

Weiqi Gao weiqigao@gmail.com
Sun Aug 7 19:12:00 GMT 2005


On 8/7/05, Bill Priest <bpriest@verizon.net> wrote:
> > >cygwin.exe or cygwinsetup.exe would both be better names.
> >
> >If the name of 'setup.exe' was going to change, it would certainly
> >need to convey to the user that it is an installation program, so your
> >second suggestion might be better.  Still, it is common practice to name
> >setup programs 'setup' for Windows so making any change is likely to cause
> >more confusion than there is now (and based on the list feedback, there
> >seems to be very little confusion on this point right now).
> 
> I typically save cygwin's setup.exe to my Desktop as I update cygwin quite
> often; however, I've found that this interferes with some other (admittedly buggy
> and lame install programs).  It isn't a big deal to rename setup.exe to
> cygwin_setup.exe (or your favorite) or to do save link as.

Can't you just click on the http://cygwin.com/setup.exe link from
within IE and say "run"?  There's no need to save it anywhere.  This
way you will be always be running the latest and greatest Cygwin
setup.exe.

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