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Re: Cygwin patch numbers
Robert Collins wrote:
> On Tue, 2003-04-22 at 17:19, Peter S Tillier wrote:
>> Folks,
>>
>> I notice that the Cygwin developers use a standard naming convention
for
>> the packages containing, for example gawk and sed. This convention
is
>> based upon the tool's version number and various patch levels, such
as:
>>
>> gawk-3.1.2-2.tar.bz2
>
> Beep, wrong. See http://www.cygwin.com/setup.html.
>
> Summary: the -2 is the package update level, not a patch level.
Sorry, you're quite right.
Peter S Tillier
"Who needs perl when you can write dc, sokoban,
arkanoid and an unlambda interpreter in sed?"
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