From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 69740 invoked by alias); 15 Dec 2016 15:54:55 -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 69609 invoked by uid 89); 15 Dec 2016 15:54:54 -0000 Authentication-Results: sourceware.org; auth=none X-Virus-Found: No X-Spam-SWARE-Status: No, score=-1.4 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=cygwin-apps, cygwinapps X-HELO: mail-io0-f182.google.com Received: from mail-io0-f182.google.com (HELO mail-io0-f182.google.com) (209.85.223.182) by sourceware.org (qpsmtpd/0.93/v0.84-503-g423c35a) with ESMTP; Thu, 15 Dec 2016 15:54:44 +0000 Received: by mail-io0-f182.google.com with SMTP id p42so72856262ioo.1 for ; Thu, 15 Dec 2016 07:54:44 -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=euqNltPw7urr4TXGGiGFN+wPCM4XFLrIN3q8Aqvdd0k=; b=h3U3VXtNE/jkop3ftij5AEm9bblpwg0oH5NkkMP+CGHJes5gHWVgZbkhH87Ap0Vve8 fGW6G7IwLRlIgCrUmEIkLwy/yr0d6Y7kqOVDQW+B4Zrw8cjWynzLRpPZGSm+SJADl3xh WfnFp1Jp1h4MHWo27v3HPFWRBtjRmBSmlhGpuB6slEN4ukoZWt+3eBGYeX8ieFl97tfF mCUvuH/lGaCr5qDAlu3drz92gNn84MNuGe/XheVkEh5vxmqKtNK/kbAI97XQt99goI9h dEJtqmV7Tf9JOIWAuqxQhK1L52epdu5PGAGF+wyY9s9ms6YKgp8APcGkoVS4hz0wl2RO IF5w== X-Gm-Message-State: AIkVDXISclY5OvKuq6IDKmzZGMYAOuAvkLEeJI6QRYMFB3j3+7qRWbn3ddZCTQDwg88DPQ== X-Received: by 10.107.57.193 with SMTP id g184mr2218620ioa.183.1481817282644; Thu, 15 Dec 2016 07:54:42 -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 9sm1688121itv.0.2016.12.15.07.54.41 for (version=TLS1_2 cipher=ECDHE-RSA-AES128-GCM-SHA256 bits=128/128); Thu, 15 Dec 2016 07:54:41 -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> <044562e5-6c8e-1649-0a48-0e486a098510@gmail.com> From: cyg Simple Message-ID: <971a029b-ae1a-00d7-a934-6a6fea3db1a1@gmail.com> Date: Thu, 15 Dec 2016 15:54:00 -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/msg00179.txt.bz2 On 12/14/2016 4:58 PM, Erik Soderquist wrote: > On Wed, Dec 14, 2016 at 4:50 PM, cyg Simple wrote: >> 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. > > If we were purely *nix, we wouldn't be on Windows in the first place. > >> 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. > > I don't recall anyone trying to create a problem so much as find out > the reasoning behind the decision and ask for the setup executable > version information to be more accessible than it currently is. At > present, it does not appear that the cygwin pages list the current > setup executable version at all, forcing either an aborted setup run > when the setup executable itself reports that the setup.ini file > indicates the currently running executable is outdated, or downloading > *something* to see if the version of setup available for download has > changed. If you that concerned about it you can check the repository tags at https://cygwin.com/git/gitweb.cgi?p=cygwin-apps/setup.git;a=tags to find the current released version. -- 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