[ANNOUNCEMENT] CALL FOR TESTING: Cygwin 1.7.10

[Buchbinder, Barry (NIH/NIAID) [E]]

Shaddy Baddah sent the following at Thursday, December 22, 2011 5:12 AM
>At this point, I should make a disclosure. To do this as a
>non-Administrator grouped user, I must rename setup.exe to cygpkg.exe.
>This defeats the later Windows releases abilities to automatically
>detect installer applications by their name, and force privilege
>elevation. This is something that I have been meaning to open up a
>discussion about for some time (or may have tried to already, I can't
>recall), but I'll leave it to stand at the moment.

I would propose that <setup.exe> be renamed on cygwin.com to a name
lacking "setup", install", "inst", etc., so that one no longer needs
to jump through this hoop.  If that seems like a good idea, I would
suggest the name <getcygwin.exe>.

- Barry
  Disclaimer: Statements made herein are not made on behalf of NIAID.