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

[Marco Atzeri <marco dot atzeri at gmail dot com>]

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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