On Mon, 8 Aug 2005, Gerrit P. Haase wrote:
> Jon A. Lambert wrote:
>
> > Bill Priest wrote:
> >
> > > 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).
On Mon, Aug 08, 2005 at 08:53:11AM -0500, Weiqi Gao wrote:
>On 8/7/05, Christopher Faylor <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>>
>> Just in case it matters, unless Corinna disagrees, we won't be changing
>> the name to something other than setup.exe.
>
>Thank you, thank you, thank you. Stick with setup.ex
On 8/7/05, Christopher Faylor <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
> Just in case it matters, unless Corinna disagrees, we won't be changing
> the name to something other than setup.exe.
Thank you, thank you, thank you. Stick with setup.exe! There are
probably tens of thousands of little scripts writte
Original Message
>From: Weiqi Gao
>Sent: 08 August 2005 01:42
> On 8/7/05, Larry Hall wrote:
>> Before anyone else trips, falls, and hurts themselves on this thread,
>> let's put it back on the top shelf behind the locked door. After all,
>> think of the children! ;-)
>
> Oh, the childr
Jon A. Lambert wrote:
Bill Priest wrote:
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 you
On Mon, Aug 08, 2005 at 12:44:48AM -0400, Jon A. Lambert wrote:
>Many of the users I've turned on to cygwin don't immediately grok the
>notion that setup.exe is more than just a run once installation program.
>Usually the question after installing is "where is gcc? where is make?" "I
>installe
Bill Priest wrote:
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
On Sun, Aug 07, 2005 at 07:22:19PM -0500, Herb Martin wrote:
>> [mailto:cygwin-owner cygwin com] On Behalf Of Brian Dessent
??
>>I do not like the idea of adding the version to the name of the file.
>>To a naive user it would reinforce the incorrect idea that the ver
On 8/7/05, Larry Hall <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Before anyone else trips, falls, and hurts themselves on this thread, let's
> put it back on the top shelf behind the locked door. After all, think of
> the children! ;-)
Oh, the children! Forgot about them. Should've been carefuller. :)
--
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> [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Brian Dessent
> I do not like the idea of adding the version to the name of the file.
> To a naive user it would reinforce the incorrect idea that
> the version of setup has anything whatsoever to do with the
> version of Cygwin and other packages that th
Jason Pyeron wrote:
> cygwin-update-client-.exe
I don't see how that changes anything. The version of the setup program
is next to irrelevent. As I said, if you try to run a version that's
not the current one you get a message, and updates of setup.exe are made
very infrequently. It is jus
On Sun, 7 Aug 2005, Brian Dessent wrote:
A user might see "setup-1.2.3" and then later see "setup-1.3.4" and
think, "oh look it's a newer version of Cygwin." Or, they would look at
the version of setup.exe and not bother taking any action if it's the
same as the one they already have, even thou
Jason Pyeron wrote:
> I like typing start->run http://cygwin.com/setup.exe, as I am sure most of
> us do. But it would be a "best" practice to name the installer, something
> descriptive, like cygwin-2.457.2.2.exe.
I do not like the idea of adding the version to the name of the file.
To a naive
> -Original Message-
> From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Jason Pyeron
> Sent: Sunday, August 07, 2005 6:39 PM
> To: cygwin@cygwin.com
> Subject: RE: setup.exe filename
>
> On Sun, 7 Aug 2005, Herb Martin wrote:
>
> >
>
On Sun, 7 Aug 2005, Herb Martin wrote:
No, if you look closely you will see this is almost never the case for
DISTRIBUTION package files or single install files -- it used to be true
but was given up as a poor practice.
how about a simple soultion here.
I like typing start->run http://cygwin
On Sun August 7 2005 18:09, WG wrote:
> On 8/7/05, Herb Martin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > Which brings up those who wish to make it available for other
> > (internal) users
>
> Where I work, they've set up a internal cygwin mirror that's synched
> everyday. Works like a charm.
>
> > Naming the
> > Naming the program "setup.exe" is crude; it should have a version
> > number and something about "cygwin" in the name.
>
> Wait a minute. The full name of the file is http://cygwin.com/setup.exe.
No, the name of the FILE is setup.exe once it is saved (using defaults
which is what the "ave
On 8/7/05, Herb Martin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
> Which brings up those who wish to make it available for other
> (internal) users
Where I work, they've set up a internal cygwin mirror that's synched
everyday. Works like a charm.
> Naming the program "setup.exe" is crude; it should have a
> 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.
>
Sure, you "can" do a lot of things, but this is not necessarily a
customa
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.
>>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 'set
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