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Re: cygwin beta packages
- From: Achim Gratz <Stromeko at nexgo dot de>
- To: cygwin-apps at cygwin dot com
- Date: Tue, 11 Nov 2014 18:18:37 +0100
- Subject: Re: cygwin beta packages
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Yaakov Selkowitz writes:
> On 2014-11-10 12:31, Achim Gratz wrote:
>> The current beta packages contain a "." in the release number. That dot is
>> chopped off along with the anything that follows in some places during
>> install in setup.exe.
>
> Which places exactly? We could just fix this in setup instead.
I haven't had time to really track this down, but the display of the
currently installing package is one such place. I would suggest that a
"." should not be allowed in the release part of the PVR since otherwise
it'll become very hard to parse or we need to have a list of possible
suffixes that we can strip off before parsing. Whatever we do, it
should be documented someplace other than an actual piece of code.
Regards,
Achim.
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