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."
