Suggestion to move Cygwin documentation to more version neutral path...

Andrey Repin anrdaemon@yandex.ru
Sun May 29 18:30:00 GMT 2016


Greetings, Oleksandr Gavenko!

> On 2016-05-29, Hans-Bernhard Bröker wrote:

>>> As far as I know current Cygwin version is 1.7.
>>
>> That knowledge is rather inaccurate.

> Now I see that Cygwin as project at version like 1.7.xx now, as in announce:

>   https://cygwin.com/ml/cygwin-announce/2015-02/msg00009.html
>     Updated: Cygwin 1.7.34-6

Why do you refer to last year's announce?
Why not https://cygwin.com/ml/cygwin-announce/2016-04/msg00063.html ?

> But Cygwin dll is at version 2.5.1 and I think it like platform API level:

You know, you don't need to guess on publicly available information?

>   bash# uname -a
>   CYGWIN_NT-5.1 vm-ms 2.5.1(0.297/5/3) 2016-04-21 22:12 i686 Cygwin

https://cygwin.com/

Current Cygwin DLL version

The most recent version of the Cygwin DLL is 2.5.1. Install it by running
setup-x86.exe (32-bit installation) or setup-x86_64.exe (64-bit installation).


-- 
With best regards,
Andrey Repin
Sunday, May 29, 2016 16:53:28

Sorry for my terrible english...


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