Re: Cygwin Setup Version

Re: Cygwin Setup Version

[Jon Turney]

On 02/02/2018 14:01, Juergen Ernst Guenther wrote:
> Hello,
> 
> sorry for bothering you.

Firstly, do not send me personal email.

Please read http://cygwin.com/problems.html#personal-email, particularly 
the section starting "Shouldn't I just send email to straight to a 
Cygwin developer or package maintainer?"

> 
> - Is there a simple way from command line
>    to get the version number od setup_x86.exe,
>    like -V or -version?
>    In setup.log there is a version number, but
>    I want to avoid the GUI.

No.

A patch to add such an option would be useful.

> - The setup version shown in
>    https://sourceware.org/git/gitweb.cgi?p=cygwin-setup.git;a=summary
>    seems to be a bit newer than of the ones to be downloaded at
>    https://cygwin.com/

These are release candidate versions.

> - Is there a way to find out the setup versions on https://cygwin.com/
>    before downloading them?

You can search the cygwin-announce mailing list archive for the most 
recent setup announcement?

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