Re: Installer names not meaningful enough

[Eliot Moss <moss at cs dot umass dot edu>]

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