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Re: Cygwin patch numbers
- From: Corinna Vinschen <corinna-cygwin at cygwin dot com>
- To: Cygwin <cygwin at cygwin dot com>
- Date: Wed, 23 Apr 2003 15:31:00 +0200
- Subject: Re: Cygwin patch numbers
- References: <000201c30915$dcf96180$5c16989e@oemcomputer>
- Reply-to: cygwin at cygwin dot com
On Tue, Apr 22, 2003 at 08:19:20AM +0100, Peter S Tillier wrote:
> Folks,
>
> I notice that the Cygwin developers use a standard naming convention for
> the packages containing, for example gawk and sed. This convention is
> based upon the tool's version number and various patch levels, such as:
>
> gawk-3.1.2-2.tar.bz2
>
> However when gawk --version is executed the version number only displays
> as 3.1.2 (the GNU awk version/patch number). Would it be possible for
> the Cygwin patch number (the -2 above) to be included in the version
> number for each tool/package please?
Why should packages on Cygwin show another version number than the same
package on e. g. Linux? For instance the grep package:
linux$ rpm -q grep
grep-2.4.2-6
linux$ grep --version
grep (GNU grep) 2.4.2
[...]
Corinna
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