On 12/14/2016 4:58 PM, Erik Soderquist wrote:
> On Wed, Dec 14, 2016 at 4:50 PM, cyg Simple 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 pu
On Wed, Dec 14, 2016 at 4:50 PM, cyg Simple 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
On 12/14/2016 4:17 PM, Erik Soderquist wrote:
> On Fri, Dec 9, 2016 at 6:28 AM, Vlado wrote:
>> Erik (and others),
>>
>> don't worry about Setup version, please.
>>
>> Use this script:
>> https://gist.github.com/Vlado-99/1d59bf05b70481377ff90bb53e13bb2d
>>
>> - Setup is downloaded only if gpg sign
On Fri, Dec 9, 2016 at 6:28 AM, Vlado wrote:
> Erik (and others),
>
> don't worry about Setup version, please.
>
> Use this script:
> https://gist.github.com/Vlado-99/1d59bf05b70481377ff90bb53e13bb2d
>
> - Setup is downloaded only if gpg signature changes (only very small .sig
> file is re-downloa
On 7.12.2016 23:06, Erik Soderquist wrote:
On Wed, Dec 7, 2016 at 4:57 PM, Brian Inglis wrote:
Use wget -N to prevent duplicate downloads when the name, date,
and size don't change.
That only works if I am downloading to the same location/name as the source is
-- Erik
Erik (and others),
do
On 2016-12-07 15:06, Erik Soderquist wrote:
> On Wed, Dec 7, 2016 at 4:57 PM, Brian Inglis wrote:
>
>> Use wget -N to prevent duplicate downloads when the name, date, and
>> size don't change.
>
> That only works if I am downloading to the same location/name as the
> source is
You can use e.g. w
On Wed, Dec 7, 2016 at 4:57 PM, Brian Inglis wrote:
> Use wget -N to prevent duplicate downloads when the name, date,
> and size don't change.
That only works if I am downloading to the same location/name as the source is
-- Erik
--
Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html
FAQ:
On 2016-12-07 14:40, Erik Soderquist wrote:
> 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 g
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
On 2016-12-07 07:46, Ian Lambert wrote:
> On December 7, 2016 4:57:02 AM EST, Duncan Roe wrote:
>> On Tue, Dec 06, 2016 at 10:11:42AM +0100, Gerrit Haase wrote:
>>> 2016-12-01 11:51 GMT+01:00 Roberto Ríos Gallardo says:
Please give the installers more meaningful names. In
particular, make
On December 7, 2016 4:57:02 AM EST, Duncan Roe
wrote:
>On Tue, Dec 06, 2016 at 10:11:42AM +0100, Gerrit Haase wrote:
>> 2016-12-01 11:51 GMT+01:00 Roberto Ríos Gallardo says:
>> > Please give the installers more meaningful names. In particular,
>make
>> > sure "cygwin" is part of it. "setup-x86_6
On Tue, Dec 06, 2016 at 10:11:42AM +0100, Gerrit Haase wrote:
> 2016-12-01 11:51 GMT+01:00 Roberto Ríos Gallardo says:
> > 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 nic
2016-12-01 11:51 GMT+01:00 Roberto Ríos Gallardo says:
> 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.
The version is part of setup.ini in the header:
# This file w
On 2016-12-05 10:36, Stephen Paul Carrier wrote:
> On Thu, Dec 01, 2016 at 11:37:41AM -0500, Ian Lambert wrote:
>> On December 1, 2016 8:54:57 AM EST, cyg Simple wrote:
>>>
>>>
>>> On 12/1/2016 8:25 AM, Vlado wrote:
On 1.12.2016 13:51, Eliot Moss wrote:
> I think that including the versio
On 12/5/2016 1:25 PM, Andrey Repin wrote:
Greetings, Stephen Paul Carrier!
I don't mind renaming the file myself, but would really appreciate any
way to know from the cygwin.com front page exactly which version of the
setup-*.exe is on offer. (The current version of Cygwin DLL is useful,
but n
Greetings, Stephen Paul Carrier!
> I don't mind renaming the file myself, but would really appreciate any
> way to know from the cygwin.com front page exactly which version of the
> setup-*.exe is on offer. (The current version of Cygwin DLL is useful,
> but not the same thing.)
That may (will!)
On Thu, Dec 01, 2016 at 11:37:41AM -0500, Ian Lambert wrote:
> On December 1, 2016 8:54:57 AM EST, cyg Simple wrote:
> >
> >
> >On 12/1/2016 8:25 AM, Vlado wrote:
> >> On 1.12.2016 13:51, Eliot Moss wrote:
> >>> I think that including the version of the setup program could be
> >helpful
> >>> - I
Lee Dilkie sent the following at Thursday, December 01, 2016 7:19 AM
>On 12/1/2016 5:51 AM, Roberto Ríos 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 ni
On 12/1/2016 8:25 AM, Vlado wrote:
> On 1.12.2016 13:51, Eliot Moss wrote:
>> I think that including the version of the setup program could be helpful
>> - I tend
>> to add it (renaming the file by hand). However, clearly we've lived
>> with things this
>> way for a long time ...
More than a sc
On 1.12.2016 13:51, Eliot Moss wrote:
I think that including the version of the setup program could be helpful
- I tend
to add it (renaming the file by hand). However, clearly we've lived
with things this
way for a long time ...
I disagree.
I have a script to update Cygwin. This script checks
On 12/1/2016 7:18 AM, Lee Dilkie wrote:
>
>
> On 12/1/2016 5:51 AM, Roberto Ríos 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
On 12/1/2016 5:51 AM, Roberto Ríos 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
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