Windows support with scoop installer without bash

I tried to use this from windows. Unfortunately it needs a bash environment. I know that this is the intended purpose for this project.

I created a simple scoop installer but with a jar created from https://github.com/hj-lee/kscript (thanks @hj-lee ).

scoop add bucket raisercostin https://github.com/raisercostin/raiser-scoop-bucket
scoop install kscript

After that I was able to execute scripts with dependencies from windows without any bash help via a simple kscript hello.ks.

How can I help to have an official release with the merge from @hj-lee fork?

[abelsromero]

script-packaging will just work in bash.

That can be fixed and I’d recommend moving that conversation to https://github.com/holgerbrandl/kscript/issues/197. If we all agree that next release’s goal is full Windows compatibility we just need some coordination 👍

About @hj-lee I’d really like to see some of its improvements (specially the one “calling directly the kotlin compiler instead of bash”) but I don’t like “use classloader to run the script main and more” (I’ve experienced classpath pollution in gradle plugins that add code to the classpath). Said that, I have to say that some of @hj-lee ideas are great but having many improvements in the same branch puts the leader in a complicated position of “all or nothing”. How about splitting them so we can choose with ones we want merge asap?

[holgerbrandl]

Thanks for your clarifying description. Though, I’m not sure how to fix/incorporate that into kscript.