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Re: Setup.exe status
- To: cygwin-developers at sourceware dot cygnus dot com
- Subject: Re: Setup.exe status
- From: Earnie Boyd <earnie_boyd at yahoo dot com>
- Date: Fri, 17 Mar 2000 13:36:17 -0800 (PST)
- Reply-To: earnie_boyd at yahoo dot com
--- DJ Delorie <dj@delorie.com> wrote:
>
> > I have added support for parsing
> > http://sourceware.cygnus.com/cygwin/mirrors.html and allowing the
> > user to select their download site from that list or one of their
> > own choosing. I am assuming the release will be in a subdirectory
> > named cygwin-1.1.0 from the links that are posted there. I trust DJ
> > or someone will let me know if I am in error.
>
> Well, not "error" but still "undecided". Chris and I were talking
> about this, and my thoughts were that the version number of cygwin
> itself (the dll) would be 1.1.0 (i.e. there would be a
> cygwin/cygwin-1.1.0.tar.gz file) but the actual distribution would be
> something like <ftp>/current (i.e. <ftp>/current/cygwin/*.tar.gz)
You mean <ftp>/cygwin/latest don't you, with latest being a link to
cygwin-1.1.0? I don't see any reason to change what's already established.
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Earnie Boyd: <mailto:earnie_boyd@yahoo.com>
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