Igor Pechtchanski wrote: > On Tue, 26 Jul 2005, Cliff Hones wrote: > > >>Doesn't help you tell which version of setup.exe you have, though. >>[snip] >>The Cygwin home page prominently displays the latest Cygwin DLL version. >>Could it not also display the latest setup.exe version > > That would be a good idea, IMO. > >>and also a link to the setup.exe snapshots? > > And this wouldn't. It doesn't link to the Cygwin DLL snapshots for the > same reason ...
</pantomime on> Oh yes it does. [See the "Snapshots" link under "Contributing" in the left panel.] </pantomime off> >> -- those aren't ready for most people to try. People who are > willing to try the latest snapshot version, warts and all, and are > prepared to properly report bugs can easily Google for "cygwin setup > snapshots" and get there. Well, for a while the holding directory was nom-browseable, so you had to know the full name of the snapshot you wanted - but I guess that was unintentional. > That said, the latest release version of setup.exe is encoded in setup.ini > on any up-to-date mirror. Simply run your old copy, and it'll warn you if > a newer version of setup.exe is available -- no need for the download > dance. Agreed, but you have to go through the rigmarole of several mouse clicks to get that far. -- Cliff -- 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/