On 2/27/2018 10:32 AM, Marco Atzeri wrote: > On 27/02/2018 15:32, cyg Simple wrote: >> On 2/26/2018 12:45 PM, Jon Turney wrote: > >> I'll take a look at your reference and provide comment under a different >> response. However, not versioning the file isn't something I am >> promoting as I am of the belief that the delivered executable should >> have a version attached to its name. >> > > please not add version to the setup executable name. > > Some of us are using the setup through link or batch > to automatically select some preferred configuration. > > Adjusting them every time we update the setup program > has no added value.
That point was already addressed by Jon and my retort was that the issue could be resolved by supplying a symlink for the name without the version. >> >> This will break more than backwards compatibility with old versions >> of setup, but also any scripts that do 'wget -N >> https://cygwin.com/setup-x86_64.exe', or equivalent. >> > Easily remedied by a symlink to the current version. Many packages > have such a link as an aid to such scripts. -- cyg Simple
