Installer names not meaningful enough

Gerrit Haase gerrit.haase@gmail.com
Tue Dec 6 09:12:00 GMT 2016


2016-12-01 11:51 GMT+01:00 Roberto Ríos Gallardo says:
> Please give the installers more meaningful names. In particular, make
> sure "cygwin" is part of it. "setup-x86_64.exe" is not very obvious. A
> version number would be nice too.

The version is part of setup.ini in the header:

# This file was automatically generated at 2016-12-05 09:43:16 UTC.
#
# If you edit it, your edits will be discarded next time the file is
# generated.  See http://cygwin.com/setup.html for details.
release: cygwin
arch: x86_64
setup-timestamp: 1480930996
setup-version: 2.876
...


Regards,
Gerrit

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