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Date: Mon, 22 May 2000 23:08:14 -0400
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From: DJ Delorie <dj AT delorie DOT com>
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Subject: Re: Next net release will be 1.1.3
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> At one point you were going to have cygcheck grab the version info
> strings from the cygwin DLL.  That would probably be useful.  There
> is code in setup.c that could be stolen to do this.

Should be easy to do.  Anyone want to volunteer for this fun task?  :-)

> We have enough space in utsname to add an "S" to the version number, too,
> if that would help make it clear that a user was running a snapshot.

Hmmm... we've got 9 characters.  How about *replacing* the version
number with ss-YYMMDD for snapshots, and "devYYMMDD" for developer
builds?