Re: Request for a version/ revision/ release number for the whole Cygwin release/ distribution

[Fred Kulack <kulack at us dot ibm dot com>]

On 10/01/2004 at 12:31:34 AM, cygwin-owner@cygwin.com wrote:
Every O/S and application
I've used had a release number for the whole thing; Cygwin should as
well.
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At a minimum, I think that's quite an oversimplification and perhaps 
factually untrue?

Have you used a Linux distribution for example? There's a single release 
number, but its really
rather meaningless, because the first thing you do is install updates to 
various packages (possibly
including the kernel). 

That's very similar to cygwin. You have a base version of the cygwin DLL, 
and version number
for each package. 
I suspect that the best you'll have is to explicitly test and ship your 
product with a specific
version of the packages that you use.



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