From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 10568 invoked by alias); 5 Dec 2016 18:53:47 -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 10557 invoked by uid 89); 5 Dec 2016 18:53:46 -0000 Authentication-Results: sourceware.org; auth=none X-Virus-Found: No X-Spam-SWARE-Status: No, score=-1.8 required=5.0 tests=AWL,BAYES_20,KAM_LAZY_DOMAIN_SECURITY,RP_MATCHES_RCVD autolearn=ham version=3.3.2 spammy=Greetings, Hx-languages-length:718, H*f:sk:1921963, H*i:sk:1921963 X-HELO: mailsrv.cs.umass.edu Received: from mailsrv.cs.umass.edu (HELO mailsrv.cs.umass.edu) (128.119.240.136) by sourceware.org (qpsmtpd/0.93/v0.84-503-g423c35a) with ESMTP; Mon, 05 Dec 2016 18:53:36 +0000 Received: from [192.168.24.157] (eduroamgw.cs.umass.edu [128.119.40.194]) by mailsrv.cs.umass.edu (Postfix) with ESMTPSA id DA4784014157; Mon, 5 Dec 2016 13:53:34 -0500 (EST) Reply-To: moss@cs.umass.edu Subject: Re: Installer names not meaningful enough References: <93ce058d-79e6-a213-1b6f-1ec3438b71c4@gmail.com> <5d61771c-00e8-9adb-58ff-8094bf12e550@gmail.com> <20161205173630.GA1749@fedora.wp.comcast.net> <1921963768.20161205212541@yandex.ru> To: cygwin@cygwin.com From: Eliot Moss Message-ID: <2a8450b4-667b-decb-3af3-5e9a2849d6ad@cs.umass.edu> Date: Mon, 05 Dec 2016 18:53:00 -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: <1921963768.20161205212541@yandex.ru> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=windows-1252; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-IsSubscribed: yes X-SW-Source: 2016-12/txt/msg00036.txt.bz2 On 12/5/2016 1:25 PM, Andrey Repin wrote: > Greetings, Stephen Paul Carrier! > >> I don't mind renaming the file myself, but would really appreciate any >> way to know from the cygwin.com front page exactly which version of the >> setup-*.exe is on offer. (The current version of Cygwin DLL is useful, >> but not the same thing.) > > That may (will!) confuse people not familiar with insides of Cygwin > environment. Possibly, but it doesn't strike me as overly difficult to explain that these are different version sequences. We also might be able to make the two numbering schemes look sufficiently different that they would be harder to confuse ... Regards - Eliot Moss -- 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