From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 32514 invoked by alias); 14 Dec 2016 21:50:27 -0000 Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help@cygwin.com; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk List-Id: List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: cygwin-owner@cygwin.com Mail-Followup-To: cygwin@cygwin.com Received: (qmail 32447 invoked by uid 89); 14 Dec 2016 21:50:26 -0000 Authentication-Results: sourceware.org; auth=none X-Virus-Found: No X-Spam-SWARE-Status: No, score=-1.9 required=5.0 tests=AWL,BAYES_00,FREEMAIL_FROM,RCVD_IN_DNSWL_NONE,SPF_PASS autolearn=ham version=3.3.2 spammy=soderquist, Soderquist, H*MI:sk:r6GS5q2, H*MI:CACoZoo09 X-HELO: mail-io0-f179.google.com Received: from mail-io0-f179.google.com (HELO mail-io0-f179.google.com) (209.85.223.179) by sourceware.org (qpsmtpd/0.93/v0.84-503-g423c35a) with ESMTP; Wed, 14 Dec 2016 21:50:16 +0000 Received: by mail-io0-f179.google.com with SMTP id 136so52585158iou.3 for ; Wed, 14 Dec 2016 13:50:16 -0800 (PST) X-Google-DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=1e100.net; s=20161025; h=x-gm-message-state:subject:to:references:from:message-id:date :user-agent:mime-version:in-reply-to:content-transfer-encoding; bh=LiGlJ/iDluB+R7IphZ9NbzYo3mtc15fpVyqf1RgkbjE=; b=lrBStJUzSrTRbMl9IUWC7fxj3Qvk6n0GIP3o93xmZaMd0pdaxBJyA9xkofeuv630FC GEAwzz3Lw4FJYEdI438yz76LtVbs7UXEAkpY3noWZXqe4Yi8r6DzquFM69TF71a7YWKp vW1jMEL4wF4ohsuj1JMabIBVUoBRtUxI9Tvr4/a7aN6xz5npbpqoFlkds8MJQRVaUrop JCr6lN6XAR0vY+j3ABhCi09DaF8ADL4+N6teG3u5AoLqhXaGvUI6WwWg6yor7fCv7czl H3sPW7ve7Vlt6ButyO5hE23bvSnglhIYiqqi8WeAD5K0EUeKEocIgmuznfkiVByEkR+I b44g== X-Gm-Message-State: AKaTC02P526egJIUGVkHiguSriJpT5XL1v4zGWj8DSkl6Wk6b1NOcAo5ZbxiQWHL5OpbqA== X-Received: by 10.107.186.135 with SMTP id k129mr42399495iof.65.1481752214633; Wed, 14 Dec 2016 13:50:14 -0800 (PST) Received: from [192.168.0.6] (d27-96-48-76.nap.wideopenwest.com. [96.27.76.48]) by smtp.gmail.com with ESMTPSA id h17sm23609427ioh.6.2016.12.14.13.50.13 for (version=TLS1_2 cipher=ECDHE-RSA-AES128-GCM-SHA256 bits=128/128); Wed, 14 Dec 2016 13:50:14 -0800 (PST) Subject: Re: Installer names not meaningful enough To: cygwin@cygwin.com References: <9d6c50f4-3759-0a45-a97c-30b031a906a0@SystematicSw.ab.ca> <1cdcdc17-200d-6ec1-66c5-894c0cf16937@gmail.com> From: cyg Simple Message-ID: <044562e5-6c8e-1649-0a48-0e486a098510@gmail.com> Date: Wed, 14 Dec 2016 21:50:00 -0000 User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 10.0; WOW64; rv:45.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/45.5.1 MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-IsSubscribed: yes X-SW-Source: 2016-12/txt/msg00165.txt.bz2 On 12/14/2016 4:17 PM, Erik Soderquist wrote: > On Fri, Dec 9, 2016 at 6:28 AM, Vlado wrote: >> Erik (and others), >> >> don't worry about Setup version, please. >> >> Use this script: >> https://gist.github.com/Vlado-99/1d59bf05b70481377ff90bb53e13bb2d >> >> - Setup is downloaded only if gpg signature changes (only very small .sig >> file is re-downloaded every time) > > > While work arounds are great and appreciated, they still don't address > the original question of why the version of the setup executable isn't > part of the filename like it is in most of the *nix packages and > installers (or at least most of the ones I have been exposed to). > And if we were purely *nix your argument might hold merit but this setup executable provides a Windows OS based install of a Windows based application set known as Cygwin. The name of the executable has never been a problem; why are you trying to create one? There are just as many that would keep it simple and leave the name as is. -- cyg Simple -- Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/ Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple