contools contools

* README_EN.txt
* 2025.07.31
* contools

1. DESCRIPTION
2. LICENSE
3. REPOSITORIES
4. CATALOG CONTENT DESCRIPTION
5. PREREQUISITES
6. DEPENDENCIES
7. EXTERNALS
8. DEPLOY
9. TESTS
10. AUTHOR

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1. DESCRIPTION
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A wide range of scripts for Windows interpreter (cmd.exe) and other
interpreters such as bash shell (.sh), visual basic (.vbs), python (.py) and
so on. Plus some set of standalone console utilities and tools aside other
utilities and tools from cygwin, msys and mingw.

The rest is extracted into standalone repositories beginning by `contools--`.

To search on the GitHub:

  https://github.com/andry81?tab=repositories&q=contools

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2. LICENSE
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The MIT license (see included text file "license.txt" or
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MIT_License)

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3. REPOSITORIES
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Primary:
  * https://github.com/andry81/contools/branches
    https://github.com/andry81/contools.git
First mirror:
  * https://sf.net/p/contools/contools/ci/master/tree
    https://git.code.sf.net/p/contools/contools
Second mirror:
  * https://gitlab.com/andry81/contools/-/branches
    https://gitlab.com/andry81/contools.git

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4. CATALOG CONTENT DESCRIPTION
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<root>
 |
 +- /`.log`
 |    #
 |    # Log files directory, where does store all log files from all scripts
 |    # including all nested projects.
 |
 +- /`_externals`
 |    #
 |    # Immediate external projects catalog which could not be moved into the
 |    # 3dparty dependencies catalog.
 |
 +- /`_config`
 |  | #
 |  | # Directory with build input configuration files.
 |  |
 |  +- `config.system.vars.in`
 |  |   #
 |  |   # Template file with system set of environment variables
 |  |   # designed to be stored in a version control system.
 |  |
 |  +- `config.0.vars.in`
 |      #
 |      # Template file with user set of environment variables
 |      # designed to be stored in a version control system.
 |
 +- /`_out`
 |    #
 |    # Output directory for all files.
 |
 +- /`scripts`
      #
      # The root for all scripts and tools excluding external or standalone.

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5. PREREQUISITES
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Currently used these set of OS platforms, compilers, interpreters, modules,
IDE's, applications and patches to run with or from:

1. OS platforms:

* Windows XP x86 SP3/x64 SP2
* Windows 7+

* Cygwin 1.5+ or 3.0+ (`.sh` only):
  https://cygwin.com
  - to run scripts under cygwin

* Msys2 20190524+ (`.sh` only):
  https://www.msys2.org
  - to run scripts under msys2

* Linux Mint 18.3 x64 (`.sh` only)

2. Interpreters:

* bash shell 3.2.48+
  - to run unix shell scripts

* python 3.7.3 or 3.7.5 (3.4+ or 3.5+)
  https://python.org
  - standard implementation to run python scripts
  - 3.7.4 has a bug in the `pytest` module execution (see `KNOWN ISSUES`
    section).
  - 3.6.2+ is required due to multiple bugs in the python implementation prior
    this version (see `KNOWN ISSUES` section).
  - 3.5+ is required for the direct import by a file path (with any extension)
    as noted in the documentation:
    https://docs.python.org/3/library/importlib.html#importing-a-source-file-directly

* Windows Script Host 5.8+
  - standard implementation to run vbs scripts

3. Applications:

* subversion 1.8+
  https://tortoisesvn.net
  - to run svn client

* git 2.24+
  https://git-scm.com
  - to run git client

* cygwin cygpath 1.42+
  - to run `bash_entry` script under cygwin

* msys cygpath 3.0+
  - to run `bash_entry` script under msys2

* cygwin readlink 6.10+
  - to run specific bash script functions with `readlink` calls

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6. DEPENDENCIES
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N/A

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7. EXTERNALS
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See details in `README_EN.txt` in `externals` project:

https://github.com/andry81/externals

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8. DEPLOY
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To run bash shell scripts (`.sh` file extension) you should copy these scripts:

* /_externals/tacklelib/bash/tacklelib/bash_entry
* /_externals/tacklelib/bash/tacklelib/bash_tacklelib

into the `/bin` directory of your platform.

In pure Linux you have additional step to make scripts executable or readable:

>
sudo chmod ug+x /bin/bash_entry
sudo chmod o+r  /bin/bash_entry
sudo chmod a+r  /bin/bash_tacklelib

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9. TESTS
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* bat scripts tests:

  ** scripts/tests/manual/bat
  ** scripts/tests/unit/bat
  ** scripts/tests/bench/bat

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10. AUTHOR
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Andrey Dibrov (andry at inbox dot ru)