Hi all, I've renamed cygscript as proposed. Hopefully cygregext conveys its purpose more clearly. A man page has also been added.
Repository has been moved to https://github.com/sop/cygregext. Packages are available for inspection at http://eske.fi/cygregext/. On 20.4.2017 8.24, Joni Eskelinen wrote: > On 19.4.2017 20.00, Jon Turney wrote: >> On 30/03/2017 06:54, Joni Eskelinen wrote: >>> Dear maintainers, >>> >>> Cygscript is an utility program allowing to register file types to be >>> executed in Cygwin when double clicked from File Explorer or when a file >>> is dragged and dropped to a registered file type. >>> >>> Any file type can be registered. Scripts are executed with bash in >>> MinTTY terminal. Windows paths passed as arguments (eg. when dragged and >>> dropped) are automatically detected and translated to POSIX paths. >> >> Thank you for your patience and sorry about the delay. >> >> Nice work. I'm kind of surprised we don't have something like this >> already. > > Thanks! I'm surprised too, since there's a lot of kinda hackish Windows > batch file solutions that are not generic nor easy to install. > TBH i'd rather see this feature implemented as a part of MinTTY. > >> How attached are you to the name? I know this is not a concept which >> lends itself easily to a short name, but perhaps something which makes >> the purpose a little more obvious is possible? > > I settled on cygscript after a few iterations, but it's trivial to > change at this point. It's hard to come up with something that is not > bulky. Although this not a command one has to type often, so it wouldn't > matter if it had a longer name. I'd gladly hear suggestions. > >>> Please see the github page for further details. >> >> It would be nice if there was a manpage included in the package. > > I'll write and bundle a manpage in the near future. > >>> This application is not included in any other distro, so i reckon a vote >>> must be first passed. >> >> +1 >> >>> >>> I am the sole developer and maintainer of the project at the moment. >>> >>> The source is released under MIT License. >>> >>> Homepage: >>> https://github.com/sop/cygscript >>> >>> Packages: >>> http://eske.fi/cygscript/ >>> >>> # cygscript-1.0.2-1.hint >>> category: Utils >>> requires: cygwin libgcc1 libstdc++6 mintty bash >>> sdesc: "Run shell scripts from Windows File Explorer" >>> ldesc: "A helper program allowing to register an extension (eg. .sh) >>> to be executed in Cygwin by double-clicking a file from Windows File >>> Explorer >>> or by dragging and dropping files to an icon of a registered extension."
