On Thu, Feb 3, 2011 at 8:53 PM, Christopher Faylor wrote: > On Wed, Feb 02, 2011 at 11:24:58PM +0000, Jon TURNEY wrote: >>Make a copy of setup.exe as /bin/cygwin-setup.exe. >> >>This enables a few useful things: >>- Register that copy of setup.exe with Add/Remove programs >>- Add a start menu item pointing to that copy of setup.exe >>- Type 'cygwin-setup -q -P<package>' to install a package >> >>Questions: >> >>Would setup.exe be a better choice of name? > > I'm a broken record on this subject: No, I don't want to change the name > of setup.exe. If we did that then all sorts of existing documentation > (to say nothing of ten years of Cygwin convention) would have to change. > > Sorry but I don't think this change is useful. I'd really rather that > people always just click on the link at the cygwin web site rather than > keeping a copy around and assuming that they can just use it whenever > they feel like it. > > I understand that a knowledgeable user (like me for instance) can get > by with keeping a copy on disk. I don't want unknowledgeable users > to assume that's the right way to do things. > > cgf >
I agree. we already have people that try to upgrade cygwin with program or services running. Running setup from cygwin is looking for trouble and /bin/cygwin-setup.exe is really the wrong place. Marco
