From: Eliot Moss <moss@cs.umass.edu>
To: cygwin@cygwin.com
Subject: Re: Installer names not meaningful enough
Date: Thu, 01 Dec 2016 12:51:00 -0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <ba495ad3-5e70-0edf-7958-24644e905963@cs.umass.edu> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <d7f8f9e5-e77d-8dde-8882-15084904cbe0@mitel.com>
On 12/1/2016 7:18 AM, Lee Dilkie wrote:
>
>
> On 12/1/2016 5:51 AM, Roberto RÃos Gallardo wrote:
>> 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.
>>
>
> 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".
>
> 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...
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 ...
Eliot Moss
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2016-12-01 12:51 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 [this message]
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
2016-12-07 21:25 ` Brian Inglis
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