From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 38684 invoked by alias); 1 Dec 2016 12:51:23 -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 38676 invoked by uid 89); 1 Dec 2016 12:51:23 -0000 Authentication-Results: sourceware.org; auth=none X-Virus-Found: No X-Spam-SWARE-Status: No, score=-1.0 required=5.0 tests=AWL,BAYES_50,KAM_LAZY_DOMAIN_SECURITY,RP_MATCHES_RCVD autolearn=ham version=3.3.2 spammy=dilkie, Dilkie, lived, H*RU:sk:mailsrv X-HELO: mailsrv.cs.umass.edu Received: from mailsrv.cs.umass.edu (HELO mailsrv.cs.umass.edu) (128.119.240.136) by sourceware.org (qpsmtpd/0.93/v0.84-503-g423c35a) with ESMTP; Thu, 01 Dec 2016 12:51:19 +0000 Received: from [192.168.0.3] (c-24-62-203-86.hsd1.ma.comcast.net [24.62.203.86]) by mailsrv.cs.umass.edu (Postfix) with ESMTPSA id 70E1243E1BE7; Thu, 1 Dec 2016 07:51:17 -0500 (EST) Reply-To: moss@cs.umass.edu Subject: Re: Installer names not meaningful enough References: To: cygwin@cygwin.com From: Eliot Moss Message-ID: Date: Thu, 01 Dec 2016 12:51:00 -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: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-IsSubscribed: yes X-SW-Source: 2016-12/txt/msg00008.txt.bz2 On 12/1/2016 7:18 AM, Lee Dilkie wrote: > > > On 12/1/2016 5:51 AM, Roberto Ríos 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 -- 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