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RE: Installer names not meaningful enough


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
  Disclaimer: Statements made herein are not made on behalf of NIAID.

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