On Thu, Dec 1, 2016 at 7:18 AM, Lee Dilkie wrote: > 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".
I don't recall "the Windows way" being a goal of Cygwin. > 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... Yes, the setup program is versioned, and will complain about being outdated on its own anytime it sees a setup.ini that reports a newer version of the setup program exists. I've often wondered why the setup program doesn't include its version number in the name like ever other package does, for example: openssh-7.3p1-2.tar.xz On my own systems, I download the setup program and check its version, then rename the file myself to include the version number. I know I would greatly appreciate the setup version number in the file name, and suspect this could be accomplished without breaking the existing scripted downloads by having setup.exe and setup_x64.exe be symlinks to whatever the current version is. Having the version number of the setup program thus available could also prevent a lot of duplicate downloads. I know I would look at the version number before downloading rather than download and then compare to what I have. -- Erik -- 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