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From: Erik Soderquist <ErikSoderquist@gmail.com>
To: cygwin@cygwin.com
Subject: Re: Installer names not meaningful enough
Date: Wed, 14 Dec 2016 21:18:00 -0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <CACoZoo09=r6GS5q2uWUfooDH8s=NzoD1dhyK=JTY2XaCiYKCAA@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1cdcdc17-200d-6ec1-66c5-894c0cf16937@gmail.com>

On Fri, Dec 9, 2016 at 6:28 AM, Vlado <v.99cygwin@gmail.com> 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).

-- Erik

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  reply	other threads:[~2016-12-14 21:18 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 [this message]
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
2016-12-07 21:25       ` Brian Inglis

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