From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 12316 invoked by alias); 1 Dec 2016 13:55:25 -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 12308 invoked by uid 89); 1 Dec 2016 13:55:25 -0000 Authentication-Results: sourceware.org; auth=none X-Virus-Found: No X-Spam-SWARE-Status: No, score=-1.5 required=5.0 tests=AWL,BAYES_00,FREEMAIL_FROM,RCVD_IN_DNSWL_NONE,RCVD_IN_SORBS_SPAM,SPF_PASS autolearn=no version=3.3.2 spammy=Hx-languages-length:1006, prerequisites, Vlado, H*f:sk:93ce058 X-HELO: mail-io0-f172.google.com Received: from mail-io0-f172.google.com (HELO mail-io0-f172.google.com) (209.85.223.172) by sourceware.org (qpsmtpd/0.93/v0.84-503-g423c35a) with ESMTP; Thu, 01 Dec 2016 13:55:24 +0000 Received: by mail-io0-f172.google.com with SMTP id a124so423811754ioe.2 for ; Thu, 01 Dec 2016 05:55:23 -0800 (PST) X-Google-DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=1e100.net; s=20130820; h=x-gm-message-state:subject:to:references:from:message-id:date :user-agent:mime-version:in-reply-to:content-transfer-encoding; bh=XD52Ho6Zr6SneIPbyKBfjg/KgJ7UAH4Jk+kadA6e5OE=; b=TWbLfoYP37IbQVnR4wh9D7rzYNQfnVmvcJrx1NaGQ3sgPIVjG8WX98aPNInSWyY1Iy clEQ+1TYtz7gmA903f1Ly+bpZkF8+5l2KyU4K0g2a9bhEEUFIOHv65hFL32W9yaMItwo Pkbk25eq/vGcd6dF4nf6xW6a7Xo2n8KAANnE0qBmvhNN3l2ktgYu0t+2AUvBmgxMsjtN ywIRTU2hLY/n66bBMxU1ye/N6m/cIVXiLXNBprWp0ZiNoJD9vesPUw0nXi3jyNC4wbaH TRPyiguUpYPOTXYZrjLo9fO9sr6kXVIxjZ5eMLEqCAYh3DmE3JmJX8BW+R+lfFOvpmi3 tSSw== X-Gm-Message-State: AKaTC03bAJ/QppD++8yDSf361FJjcoPZgT4upcwOnhTxD98Pb6yzNL0ACixnhRhwTfbJCQ== X-Received: by 10.107.174.4 with SMTP id x4mr30163239ioe.194.1480600521920; Thu, 01 Dec 2016 05:55:21 -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 19sm281092ion.9.2016.12.01.05.55.21 for (version=TLS1_2 cipher=ECDHE-RSA-AES128-GCM-SHA256 bits=128/128); Thu, 01 Dec 2016 05:55:21 -0800 (PST) Subject: Re: Installer names not meaningful enough To: cygwin@cygwin.com References: <93ce058d-79e6-a213-1b6f-1ec3438b71c4@gmail.com> From: cyg Simple Message-ID: <5d61771c-00e8-9adb-58ff-8094bf12e550@gmail.com> Date: Thu, 01 Dec 2016 13:55:00 -0000 User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 10.0; WOW64; rv:45.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/45.5.0 MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: <93ce058d-79e6-a213-1b6f-1ec3438b71c4@gmail.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-IsSubscribed: yes X-SW-Source: 2016-12/txt/msg00010.txt.bz2 On 12/1/2016 8:25 AM, Vlado wrote: > On 1.12.2016 13:51, Eliot Moss wrote: >> I think that including the version of the setup program could be helpful >> - I tend >> to add it (renaming the file by hand). However, clearly we've lived >> with things this >> way for a long time ... More than a score years. > > I disagree. > I have a script to update Cygwin. This script checks for new version of > setup, downloads, verifies signature, etc. Things would become much more > complicated with variable setup file name. > Finally: Why should I care about the exact version number of setup? > Script makes backups of the old setup files like setup.exe.0001, 0002, > ..., just for a cause, but never in the past I did have to looking for > the setup with exact version number. > The only reason would be if you had an older version of the .ini file. When the data prerequisites of the .ini file change there is a new version of setup to handle that. -- 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