On 18 August 2016 at 18:17, Marcin Kulisz <deb...@kulisz.net> wrote: > On 2016-08-18 16:27:23, Luke W Faraone wrote: >> Package: wnpp >> Severity: wishlist >> Owner: Luke W Faraone <lfara...@debian.org> >> >> * Package name : powershell >> Version : 6.0.0~alpha9 >> Upstream Author : Microsoft >> * URL : https://github.com/PowerShell/PowerShell >> * License : Expat >> Programming Lang: C# >> Description : scripting language interpreter built on .NET >> >> Microsoft recently released PowerShell as free software, and this month >> announced support for Linux platforms. >> >> >From a parausal of the source code, it appears to be suitable for inclusion >> >in >> Debian. > > Most likely I'm missing something but what's the use case for Powershell on > Debian?
On more practical note - there is a bunch of tooling and cmdtets to manage remote service from powershell. E.g. to manage ec2 / azure. As well as locally hosted services as far as I understand (e.g. connect to / manage via remote API Microsoft what-not servers). I'm guessing this will become more relevant as more of Microsoft software is opensourced and/or ported to Linux - eg. as the previously announced Microsoft SQL Server. Niche, but useful for the few. Kind of like R - I am not yet sold on it, and find it irrelevant, but there is a huge community of people using it. I'm more of a SageMath / numpy / scipy person. However, OMG RStudio with knitr is nice, I wish I could write lab reports in Markdown with R graphs like that back when I was in the university. On the similar note, there is a large community of people using powershell. -- Regards, Dimitri.
