setup.exe filename
Christopher Faylor
cgf-no-personal-reply-please@cygwin.com
Mon Aug 8 02:00:00 GMT 2005
On Sun, Aug 07, 2005 at 07:22:19PM -0500, Herb Martin wrote:
>> [mailto:cygwin-owner cygwin com] On Behalf Of Brian Dessent
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>>I do not like the idea of adding the version to the name of the file.
>>To a naive user it would reinforce the incorrect idea that the version
>>of setup has anything whatsoever to do with the version of Cygwin and
>>other packages that they are installing. We already get too many of
>>those on the mailing list as it is.
>>
>>A user might see "setup-1.2.3" and then later see
>
>That is a logical and possibly sufficient reason for omitting the
>"version" from the CygWin setup file name.
Phew!
cgf
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