Barry Buchbinder wrote on Thursday, March 06, 2008 4:30 PM: > Christopher Faylor wrote on Thursday, March 06, 2008 9:57 AM: >> 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. >> >> If mixing cygwin downloads with other downloads is causing you >> confusion then the obvious thing to do is to use another directory. > >You might consider <c:\cygwin> or wherever you put the "local package >directory". :-) > >You can then set up Windows shortcuts. > (<http://sources.redhat.com/ml/cygwin-apps/2003-03/msg00526.html> has >Some related information that might be of interest.) You don't have >to worry about setup.exe being out of date because setup.ini includes >setup version information. So setup.exe will tell you when to upgrade >it.
Thanks everyone for the great comments in response to my simple comment based on my changed usage model after-Vista. Before Vista I was happily clicking on Install now and Run... and had shortcuts and whatever set up all over the place as many of you suggest. After Vista I changed to a scheme where I kept setup.exe in my short-term downloads cache that could be thrown away when necessary, simply because I have now got used to having to run setup.exe as Administrator, which AFAIK is not possible by clicking Run... on the save as... dialog when downloading setup.exe. So, when I noticed that my downloads directory, which contains all sorts of (not important enough to file elsewhere) titbits, only had one file with the totally, you must agree, generic and non-cygwin-sounding name of setup.exe, I decided to write in here with a comment. Treat it just as that: a suggestion from a pedantic old software engineer who finds it a trivial annoyance, but certainly I know how to get around it. Thanks again Peter K. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Peter Klavins -- 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/
