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RE: Installer names not meaningful enough
- From: "Buchbinder, Barry (NIH/NIAID) [E]" <BBuchbinder at niaid dot nih dot gov>
- To: "cygwin at cygwin dot com" <cygwin at cygwin dot com>
- Date: Thu, 1 Dec 2016 14:06:38 +0000
- Subject: RE: Installer names not meaningful enough
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Lee Dilkie sent the following at Thursday, December 01, 2016 7:19 AM
>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".
I've nominated "getcygwin" => getcygwin64.exe or getcygwin32.exe
https://sourceware.org/ml/cygwin/2013-09/msg00316.html
- Barry
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