From: Ian Lambert <ian.lambert_42@yahoo.com>
To: cygwin@cygwin.com,Duncan Roe <duncan_roe@acslink.net.au>
Subject: Re: Installer names not meaningful enough
Date: Wed, 07 Dec 2016 14:46:00 -0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <3EF08C00-39BE-4A05-898D-49CB71057FD4@yahoo.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20161207095701.GB2661@dimstar.local.net>
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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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2016-12-07 14:46 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 24+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2016-12-01 10:52 Roberto Ríos Gallardo
2016-12-01 12:19 ` Lee Dilkie
2016-12-01 12:51 ` Eliot Moss
2016-12-01 13:25 ` Vlado
2016-12-01 13:55 ` cyg Simple
2016-12-01 16:37 ` Ian Lambert
2016-12-05 17:36 ` Stephen Paul Carrier
2016-12-05 18:35 ` Andrey Repin
2016-12-05 18:53 ` Eliot Moss
2016-12-05 19:05 ` Brian Inglis
2016-12-01 14:06 ` Buchbinder, Barry (NIH/NIAID) [E]
2016-12-07 21:40 ` Erik Soderquist
2016-12-07 21:57 ` Brian Inglis
2016-12-07 22:06 ` Erik Soderquist
2016-12-08 4:50 ` Brian Inglis
2016-12-09 11:28 ` Vlado
2016-12-14 21:18 ` Erik Soderquist
2016-12-14 21:50 ` cyg Simple
2016-12-14 21:58 ` Erik Soderquist
2016-12-15 15:54 ` cyg Simple
2016-12-06 9:12 ` Gerrit Haase
2016-12-07 9:57 ` Duncan Roe
2016-12-07 14:46 ` Ian Lambert [this message]
2016-12-07 21:25 ` Brian Inglis
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