On 12/14/2016 4:58 PM, Erik Soderquist wrote: > On Wed, Dec 14, 2016 at 4:50 PM, cyg Simple <cygsim...@gmail.com> wrote: >> And if we were purely *nix your argument might hold merit but this setup >> executable provides a Windows OS based install of a Windows based >> application set known as Cygwin. > > If we were purely *nix, we wouldn't be on Windows in the first place. > >> The name of the executable has never been a problem; why are you trying >> to create one? There are just as many that would keep it simple and >> leave the name as is. > > I don't recall anyone trying to create a problem so much as find out > the reasoning behind the decision and ask for the setup executable > version information to be more accessible than it currently is. At > present, it does not appear that the cygwin pages list the current > setup executable version at all, forcing either an aborted setup run > when the setup executable itself reports that the setup.ini file > indicates the currently running executable is outdated, or downloading > *something* to see if the version of setup available for download has > changed.
If you that concerned about it you can check the repository tags at https://cygwin.com/git/gitweb.cgi?p=cygwin-apps/setup.git;a=tags to find the current released version. -- cyg Simple -- 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