Re: setup 2.936 release candidate - please test

Jon Turney via Cygwin <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.os.cygwin
Message-ID <[email protected]>
On 14/02/2026 17:18, Jon Turney via Cygwin wrote:
> 
> A new setup release candidate is available at:
> 
>   https://cygwin.com/setup/setup-2.936.x86_64.exe (64 bit version)
> 
> Please test, and report any problems here.
> 
> Changes compared to 2.935:
[...]
> 
> - Defer to the base-files package to create Cygwin.bat. (setup stopped 
> making a shortcut to this file when mintty became the default terminal 
> in 2011. The version that base-files creates is relocatable.)
>    Addresses: https://cygwin.com/pipermail/cygwin-apps/2025- 
> August/044482.html

Ugh. I meant to write "In new installations, defer to..." here.


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