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Re: Wrong setup.exe on http://www.cygwin.com/
- From: "G.W. Haywood" <ged at jubileegroup dot co dot uk>
- To: "Cygwin mailing list." <cygwin at cygwin dot com>
- Date: Tue, 9 Feb 2010 11:21:56 +0000 (GMT)
- Subject: Re: Wrong setup.exe on http://www.cygwin.com/
- References: <1265668504.29489.ezmlm@cygwin.com>
Hello yet again,
On Mon, 8 Feb 2010 Christopher Faylor wrote:
> On Mon, Feb 08, 2010 at 09:21:30AM +0000, G.W. Haywood wrote:
> >On Mon, 8 Feb 2010 Dave Korn wrote:
> >
> >> These both work:
> >>
> >> http://www.cygwin.com/setup.exe?&go_away_proxy!
> >> http://www.cygwin.com/setup.exe?go_away_proxy!
> >
> >This could work too:
> >
> >http://www.cygwin.com/setup-1.7.1-1.exe
>
> No. It couldn't. The first time setup-1.7.1-1 was updated you'd see
> this same critical problem. The situation here is that I have been
> updating setup.exe to fix bugs and people are amazed and confounded by
> the behavior of their proxy caches which don't retrieve the new version.
I know what the situation is, and I've been suggesting a way of
improving it.
> Changing the name doesn't help that in any way.
[Sigh.]
Yes it does, if you change it every time you update it.
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73,
Ged.
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