Re: Cygwin patch numbers

["Peter S Tillier" <petert at eq1152 dot demon dot co dot uk>]

Max Bowsher wrote:
> Peter S Tillier wrote:
>> Folks,
>>
>> I notice that the Cygwin developers use a standard naming convention
>> for the packages containing, for example gawk and sed.  This
>> convention is based upon the tool's version number and various patch
>> levels, such as:
>>
>>  gawk-3.1.2-2.tar.bz2
>>
>> However when gawk --version is executed the version number only
>> displays as 3.1.2 (the GNU awk version/patch number).  Would it be
>> possible for the Cygwin patch number (the -2 above) to be included

Robert Collins points out that the -2 is the package release number.

>> in the version number for each tool/package please?
>
> I doubt that most Cygwin package maintainers are going to hunt out
> version strings and change them - especially since this part of a
> patch would cause a conflict every time they started work on a new
> version.
>

Fair enough, it was just a thought.

> In any case:
>
> $ cygcheck -c gawk
> Cygwin Package Information
> Package              Version
> gawk                 3.1.2-2
>
> Use -h to see help about each section
> $

I use this quite often when I'm not sure about current versions, but
thought that the tool's "--version" number would be more useful.

Regards,
Peter S Tillier
"Who needs perl when you can write dc, sokoban,
arkanoid and an unlambda interpreter in sed?"



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