Permalinks for versioned Cygwin setup.exe files

Csaba Raduly rcsaba@gmail.com
Tue Oct 15 07:32:00 GMT 2013


Hi Thomas,

On Tue, Oct 15, 2013 at 2:03 AM, Thomas Deinhamer <thasmo@gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi there,
>
> are there official permalinks for the setup.exe
> file to download a specific version of Cygwin?
>
> For example http://cygwin.com/setup-x86_64-1.7.25.exe

setup.exe is independent from the Cygwin DLL. It has its own version
number. The Cygwin DLL tends to be updated more often than setup.exe,
so there isn't a one-to-one relationship between them. When a new
Cygwin DLL is released, any setup.exe can ve used to download it.


Csaba
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