Peter A. Castro wrote:

> Unfortunately, the Cygwin Time Machine hasn't been archiving setup.exe
> (at least not consistently).  The top of /pub/cygwin/ always has the
> latest setup.exe (and setup.ini), but the Time Machine hasn't been
> archiving it because there's no automatic way to extract the version
> number from it.


  Well, ...

[EMAIL PROTECTED] /tmp> strings setup.exe | grep setup-version | cut -d ' ' -f 3
2.521
[EMAIL PROTECTED] /tmp>


 ... will work on every version as far back as

2000-09-07  DJ Delorie  <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>

        * splash.cc: use version.h, not local decl
        * res.rc: add "old version" message
        * resource.h: ditto
        * version.h: new
        * fromcwd.cc (canonicalize_version): make global
        * iniparse.y: add setup-version support, fix bug in blank line
        handling

        * inilex.l: add [exp] as alias for [test], add setup-version
        * Makefile.in (version.c): add setup-version tag

        * desktop.cc (do_desktop): remove 1.1 version number
        (do_desktop_setup): ditto

        * ini.cc (do_ini): zero out package list just in case we redo it.


    cheers,
      DaveK
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