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File manager written in TypeScript, React, Blueprint and packaged with Electron
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Any CYGWIN Support ?? #425

Open cosmotechlabs opened 7 months ago

cosmotechlabs commented 7 months ago

Can there be any CYGWIN release ?

CYGWIN is unix-like environment and command line tools for Windows. I use CYGWIN for LAMP and Node developing and testing. Its basically terminal thing. So, a graphical file manager for CYGWIN not Windows can be really helpful.

So, anybody interested in this ???

warpdesign commented 4 months ago

Hi,

I'm not sure what you mean. Can't you already browse CYGWIN folders with current version? Or you want to do something else?

Also, not sure that helps, but I the Linux version should work if you're using WSL.

cosmotechlabs commented 4 months ago

Hello There,

Well think like this CYGWIN has its own environment - its UNIX like and basically its console based bash, sh etc. Also have like lots of other things too like apache, mysql, php, python, perl etc just like any other linux installation. So, when we like going for directories or files its like /home/something/some-file etc like linux not like C:\home\something\some-file.

I am a Web Developer specialize in PHP but also Linux Server Administrator, Perl, Bash scripts good with git, node almost all these things and used CYGWIN env for CAMP - CYGWIN + Apache + MySQL + PHP with the help of bash scripts made it work like linux with apt-get, login and logout scripts and bunch of other stuff like phpMyAdmin-installer, composer-installer etc.

Long thing short kind of hoping a File Exploer thats goes with CYGWIN env not windows one, this react-explorer is really nice but it compiles in windows env ok but when i compile in CYGWIN env its fails.

I ll just request if somebody can install CYGWIN with node in path and then try to compile it in that env and if its not a big thing that somebody can make it work.

See idea is we can always have a Virtual Machine or Linux Sub-system in Windows but CYGWIN is way better, takes less resources to work does not waste anything like we have to make a ext4 partition in case of VM or Sub-System.