sincerely beg your help!!! for getting version 2.6.0-1

[Marco Atzeri]

On 17/01/2017 15:09, Nellis, Kenneth (Conduent) wrote:
> From: Marco Atzeri
>> On 17/01/2017 13:42, sun zheng wrote:
>>> hi team,

>>
>> As cygwin is a rolling distribution you can consider
>>
>> http://www.fruitbat.org/Cygwin/timemachine.html#AHEM
>>
>> for an installation frozen in time.
>>
>> Regards
>> Marco
>
> Maybe I'm missing something because I'm confused why Marco is suggesting
> timemachine when setup.exe still offers version 2.6.0-1. Just click on
> the package in the New column until it shows your version, then proceed
> with the installation.
>
> --Ken Nellis
>

Hi Ken,
two reasons:

- he could need to install again sometime in the future,
and than going back will not work.

- some packages could use new features added by 2.6.1
   and it will be a mess to understand which packages must be
   downgraded.

Regards
Marco

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