On 8/7/05, Bill Priest <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > >cygwin.exe or cygwinsetup.exe would both be better names. > > > >If the name of 'setup.exe' was going to change, it would certainly > >need to convey to the user that it is an installation program, so your > >second suggestion might be better. Still, it is common practice to name > >setup programs 'setup' for Windows so making any change is likely to cause > >more confusion than there is now (and based on the list feedback, there > >seems to be very little confusion on this point right now). > > I typically save cygwin's setup.exe to my Desktop as I update cygwin quite > often; however, I've found that this interferes with some other (admittedly > buggy > and lame install programs). It isn't a big deal to rename setup.exe to > cygwin_setup.exe (or your favorite) or to do save link as.
Can't you just click on the http://cygwin.com/setup.exe link from within IE and say "run"? There's no need to save it anywhere. This way you will be always be running the latest and greatest Cygwin setup.exe. -- Weiqi Gao (高为奇) [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.weiqigao.com/blog/
