Installer names not meaningful enough

[Ian Lambert]

On December 7, 2016 4:57:02 AM EST, Duncan Roe <duncan_roe@acslink.net.au> wrote:
>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?
>

$ locate setup.ini

/cygwin-install/path/ftp.some.mirror/x86_64/setup.ini

Cheers


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