Installer names not meaningful enough

Duncan Roe duncan_roe@acslink.net.au
Wed Dec 7 09:57:00 GMT 2016


On Tue, Dec 06, 2016 at 10:11:42AM +0100, Gerrit Haase wrote:
> 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

Where is setup.ini?

Cheers ... Duncan.

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