Old versions of setup.exe

[Peter A. Castro]

On Tue, 8 Nov 2005, Dave Korn wrote:

> 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, ...
>
> dk@espanola /tmp> strings setup.exe | grep setup-version | cut -d ' ' -f 3
> 2.521
> dk@espanola /tmp>

Hmmm... that doesn't seem to work for me on linux.... :(
And, it doesn't work for me on Cygwin either?!
This is what I get:

% strings -a w:/webserver/ftp/pub/cygwin/setup.exe | grep -i setup
      name="RedHat.Cygwin.Setup"

This is the latest setup.exe from the cygwin website too.  I'm at a loss
as to why it works for you and not me.

> ... will work on every version as far back as
> 2000-09-07  DJ Delorie  <dj@redhat>
>
> 	* 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

-- 
Peter A. Castro <doctor@fruitbat.org> or <Peter.Castro@oracle.com>
 	"Cats are just autistic Dogs" -- Dr. Tony Attwood

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