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 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...
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 ... Eliot Moss -- 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
