Slightly offtopic: Windows Explorer extension

Hi,

a couple of weeks ago, I started to port git to MinGW, with the ultimate goal of writing a Windows Explorer extension a la TortoiseCVS.

The two biggest obstacles are fork() and the network stuff (I do not plan on supporting Git.pm there). To overcome the absence of fork() I wanted to use the subprocess stuff in MinGW's port of GNU make.

Unfortunately, this effort was stalled a bit: I got side-tracked by the Windows Explorer extension mechanism. I found it really exciting (in the sense of an Arcade game end-of-level monster) to find a way to _easily_ write a Windows Explorer extension. Without cashware.

Since the extensions are a very substantial part of Windows Explorer, one might guess that it is relatively simple to write one. Ha! COM!

Attached is my (unfortunately stalled) WIP of such an extension. You need MinGW to compile it. It adds a menu entry "Hallo Dan de Man" to the Explorer context menu. If you select it, it just shows an alert box with the current file/directory name.

I'll be gone for one week, so if anyone wants to pick up the ball, go wild.

Ciao, Dscho