From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 6252 invoked by alias); 7 Dec 2016 21:40:45 -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 6241 invoked by uid 89); 7 Dec 2016 21:40:44 -0000 Authentication-Results: sourceware.org; auth=none X-Virus-Found: No X-Spam-SWARE-Status: No, score=-1.9 required=5.0 tests=AWL,BAYES_00,FREEMAIL_FROM,RCVD_IN_DNSWL_NONE,SPF_PASS autolearn=ham version=3.3.2 spammy=accomplished, Hx-languages-length:1464, HX-Gm-Message-State:AKaTC01, downloading X-HELO: mail-wm0-f48.google.com Received: from mail-wm0-f48.google.com (HELO mail-wm0-f48.google.com) (74.125.82.48) by sourceware.org (qpsmtpd/0.93/v0.84-503-g423c35a) with ESMTP; Wed, 07 Dec 2016 21:40:43 +0000 Received: by mail-wm0-f48.google.com with SMTP id a197so188630551wmd.0 for ; Wed, 07 Dec 2016 13:40:43 -0800 (PST) X-Google-DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=1e100.net; s=20130820; h=x-gm-message-state:mime-version:sender:in-reply-to:references:from :date:message-id:subject:to; bh=8FNO3jy/OXlXpAsW8SYGI1qoULz3dtPzgzSr3i9JxnM=; b=LosrwVbzpDmtoy52w/CtBjsoFT9wxW4YJ/MeZMWUv0lnCIViOOmCVn02C1yueWpyXw GH767xKqDMROpGxjUIXUoo5MO3X9FMoZvTl/7T7YDOzpq3eGCW6QaUShiqYFJ25JzwWj N77pUUZcJ/MhiciaiUlj8prsvsYhQmAkYVKqaDmPzg2VDT4zBBMm4W/k7X0p4Li97Nj/ yIK3YK94Uptvw+ooLmUUiwmF9rOuAwpJujRk3wNkxiwTc7QbFXcGX40xX73C/YZm5Vhv +729Ve7hsKoAJ+cuEkXeNo1jhWvpAjrHHZ3T1g9PebAz+LfX2qrgsSCE3bwLvWS40yiU xq8A== X-Gm-Message-State: AKaTC01/8z/F0DOPidCPK4V711ub313MncrCErXaFFioeVaSJeTUrKMsXEK/5Frw1ZqNpFJ8+e3THz7JEd7DPg== X-Received: by 10.25.152.142 with SMTP id a136mr20066229lfe.113.1481146840860; Wed, 07 Dec 2016 13:40:40 -0800 (PST) MIME-Version: 1.0 Received: by 10.114.224.233 with HTTP; Wed, 7 Dec 2016 13:40:39 -0800 (PST) In-Reply-To: References: From: Erik Soderquist Date: Wed, 07 Dec 2016 21:40:00 -0000 Message-ID: Subject: Re: Installer names not meaningful enough To: cygwin@cygwin.com Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 X-IsSubscribed: yes X-SW-Source: 2016-12/txt/msg00071.txt.bz2 On Thu, Dec 1, 2016 at 7:18 AM, Lee Dilkie wrote: > I'd agree that adding "cygwin" to the setup program would be nice but it's > certainly not the windows "way", lots of programs use just "setup.exe". I don't recall "the Windows way" being a goal of Cygwin. > Versioning can't be added to the file name because the setup program itself > isn't versioned, or at least isn't the same version as the cygwin you are > installing... the cygwin version come from the servers... Yes, the setup program is versioned, and will complain about being outdated on its own anytime it sees a setup.ini that reports a newer version of the setup program exists. I've often wondered why the setup program doesn't include its version number in the name like ever other package does, for example: openssh-7.3p1-2.tar.xz On my own systems, I download the setup program and check its version, then rename the file myself to include the version number. I know I would greatly appreciate the setup version number in the file name, and suspect this could be accomplished without breaking the existing scripted downloads by having setup.exe and setup_x64.exe be symlinks to whatever the current version is. Having the version number of the setup program thus available could also prevent a lot of duplicate downloads. I know I would look at the version number before downloading rather than download and then compare to what I have. -- Erik -- 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