On Thu, Mar 06, 2008 at 04:07:00PM +0100, Paul-Kenji Cahier wrote: >>?On Thu, Mar 06, 2008 at 12:43:41PM +0100, Peter Klavins wrote: >>>1. Since my downloads directory may contain many files, amongst which >>>other generic setup.exe's, could the cygwin setup program be changed to >>>something more related to cygwin, e.g., cygsetup.exe? That would fit >>>well with other cygwin bits like cyg*.dll and cyg*.exe. At the moment >>>the only hint that it belongs to cygwin is its icon, which you only see >>>if you're looking at it with Explorer. > >>?No, we're not going to change the name of the program. It's been called >>?setup.exe for many years and changing the name now would be guaranteed >>?to generate confusion. >I will have to agree that setup.exe is one of the most >common filenames and it's very confusing to keep it that way. > >However obviously cygwin seems anchored in backward compatibility >(which is not such a bad policy) so I doubt this is going to change.
I mentioned why we are not going to change and Dave Korn provided much more detail. This is only "backwards compatibility" in the broadest sense. This is not a debate. It really is not going to change. >Peter Klavins: What you should do is rename it at download time. > >>?If mixing cygwin downloads with other downloads is causing you confusion >>?then the obvious thing to do is to use another directory. >Managing files without icons is not that uncommon. >Confusion will of course arise in these cases. I have no idea what this means. Just create a shortcut to http://cygwin.com/setup.exe and put it on your desktop. Create a directory just for cygwin downloads. Click on the shortcut when you want to update and make sure that you set the download area to your newly created directory. cgf -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/
