From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 127960 invoked by alias); 1 Dec 2016 12:19:01 -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 127936 invoked by uid 89); 1 Dec 2016 12:19:00 -0000 Authentication-Results: sourceware.org; auth=none X-Virus-Found: No X-Spam-SWARE-Status: No, score=1.7 required=5.0 tests=AWL,BAYES_50,RCVD_IN_DNSWL_NONE,SPF_SOFTFAIL autolearn=no version=3.3.2 spammy=Hx-spam-relays-external:sk:xplr-20, H*RU:sk:xplr-20, H*i:sk:CAG-pUx, H*RU:sk:relay.m X-HELO: nov-007-i611.relay.mailchannels.net Received: from nov-007-i611.relay.mailchannels.net (HELO nov-007-i611.relay.mailchannels.net) (46.232.183.165) by sourceware.org (qpsmtpd/0.93/v0.84-503-g423c35a) with ESMTP; Thu, 01 Dec 2016 12:18:58 +0000 X-Sender-Id: totalchoicehosting|x-authuser|lee@dilkie.com Received: from relay.mailchannels.net (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by relay.mailchannels.net (Postfix) with ESMTP id C06521BD454 for ; Thu, 1 Dec 2016 12:18:50 +0000 (UTC) Received: from bancroft.snhdns.com (ip-10-107-69-155.us-west-2.compute.internal [10.107.69.155]) by relay.mailchannels.net (Postfix) with ESMTPA id A86D41BD299 for ; Thu, 1 Dec 2016 12:18:49 +0000 (UTC) X-Sender-Id: totalchoicehosting|x-authuser|lee@dilkie.com Received: from bancroft.snhdns.com (bancroft.snhdns.com [10.135.9.54]) (using TLSv1.2 with cipher DHE-RSA-AES256-GCM-SHA384) by 0.0.0.0:2500 (trex/5.7.8); Thu, 01 Dec 2016 12:18:50 +0000 X-MC-Relay: Neutral X-MailChannels-SenderId: totalchoicehosting|x-authuser|lee@dilkie.com X-MailChannels-Auth-Id: totalchoicehosting X-MC-Loop-Signature: 1480594729899:2269947453 X-MC-Ingress-Time: 1480594729899 Received: from xplr-204-237-97-71.xplornet.com ([204.237.97.71]:11647 helo=[192.168.51.100]) by bancroft.snhdns.com with esmtpsa (TLSv1.2:ECDHE-RSA-AES128-GCM-SHA256:128) (Exim 4.87) (envelope-from ) id 1cCQK7-00054m-RB for cygwin@cygwin.com; Thu, 01 Dec 2016 07:18:47 -0500 Subject: Re: Installer names not meaningful enough To: cygwin@cygwin.com References: From: Lee Dilkie Message-ID: Date: Thu, 01 Dec 2016 12:19:00 -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 X-AuthUser: lee@dilkie.com Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable X-SW-Source: 2016-12/txt/msg00006.txt.bz2 On 12/1/2016 5:51 AM, Roberto R=C3=ADos 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... -lee -- 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