Re: [ITP] chere

[Igor Pechtchanski <pechtcha at cs dot nyu dot edu>]

On Mon, 11 Oct 2004, Dave wrote:

> > From: Christopher Faylor
> >
> > On Mon, Oct 11, 2004 at 11:05:20AM -0700, Dave wrote:
> > >--- Dave wrote:
> > >
> > >> # chere
> > >> sdesc: "Cygwin Prompt Here context menus"
> > >> ldesc: "Shell script to manage shell here context menus for Cygwin"
> > >> category: shells utils system
> > >> requires: ash cygwin sh-utils cygutils
> > >>
> > >> Links to where you can download. Just strip the zip and txt extensions that
> > >> geocities are enforcing.
> > >>
> > >> http://www.geocities.com/d_inabox/setup.hint.txt
> > >
> > >New version available.
> > >
> > >http://www.geocities.com/d_inabox/chere-0.3-1.tar.bz2.zip
> > >
> > >Includes fixes CGF identified (but not applied verbatim). I've taken the
> > >opportunity to restructure a bit, and add an option (-r).
> > >
> > >Let me know of there are still issues with running the script on XP.
> > >
> > >Dave.
> > >
> > >PS. Reini - Thanks for the offer, but for now geocities will do.
> >
> > I don't know.  This need to add '.zip' and '.txt' on the end of things
> > seems like a good enough reason to move elsewhere.
> >
> > Regardless, I've uploaded this.  Thanks very much for this excellent tool.
> > Get ready for another long thread about how it doesn't work on Windows CE
> > and how "it would be nice if it did..."
>
> Umm. It's just made it to a mirror near me. And it looks like the previous
> version. Without your patches. I should have highlighted the update to the
> version. Sorry. Can't wait for the deluge of "chere: XP failure" emails

You can always claim that it's not announced, so... :-)

> > Please send an announcement about this ASAP to cygwin-announce.  You can
> > use http://sources.redhat.com/ml/cygwin-announce/2004-10/msg00011.html
> > as a guide, if you are so inclined, or you can roll your own.
>
> Holding off until 0.3-1 makes it to the mirrors
>
> > (and please think about the man page.  :-))
>
> Never written one before, so it'll take me a bit to figure out what I'm
> doing.  But I'll give it a go for the next iteration or so.
>
> Dave.

You might consider help2man for the first iteration...
	Igor
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