[ANNOUNCEMENT] CALL FOR TESTING: Cygwin 1.7.10

[Christopher Faylor]

On Thu, Dec 22, 2011 at 01:43:03PM -0500, Buchbinder, Barry (NIH/NIAID) [E] wrote:
>Shaddy Baddah sent the following at Thursday, December 22, 2011 5:12 AM
>>At this point, I should make a disclosure. To do this as a
>>non-Administrator grouped user, I must rename setup.exe to cygpkg.exe.
>>This defeats the later Windows releases abilities to automatically
>>detect installer applications by their name, and force privilege
>>elevation. This is something that I have been meaning to open up a
>>discussion about for some time (or may have tried to already, I can't
>>recall), but I'll leave it to stand at the moment.
>
>I would propose that <setup.exe> be renamed on cygwin.com to a name
>lacking "setup", install", "inst", etc., so that one no longer needs
>to jump through this hoop.  If that seems like a good idea, I would
>suggest the name <getcygwin.exe>.

1) This has been suggested before.

2) It's amazing that this thread has stayed on topic for this long.
Please don't hijack it.

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