On Thu, Aug 18, 2016 at 12:17 PM, 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
Heh... ya' know what... I can recall a time when I had to scramble to figure out how to deploy a windows system in a particular environment so that I had Windows available so that I could load up a powershell script. In typical Windows fashion, the effort it took me to deal with the "enhanced security features" windows provides was quite frustrating, on top of having to find a way to run some queries to grant myself domain admin rights because 20,000 people were impacted and people didn't think it was a problem worth staying late for. Anyway, if I could have run "aptitude install powershell" and run the queries directly against our problem child from my debian workstation, well... that'd have been quite swell, pardon my language. As a Debian guy that gets cranky outside of *nix-land, I think powershell is a pile of garbage, but I've been in positions where having it in the repos would have been like a gift from god delivered on a silver/gold platter. Side note... I'm actually incredibly impressed that microsoft released powershell with such a free and open license. I don't get the impression this is actually the powershell-in-windows source. I get the impression it's just a portion, but... whatever. It also seems like it's sort of a trial to see if they want to continue open sourcing MS SQL (I don't think they did, yet...). I've cried a few times in meetings where they decide that's the DB of choice. Why? MariaDB is just so much nicer and easier and has support and dummy-proof docs... anyway, I would have been much less frustrated at the decision if aptitude install mssql-server were a thing. I can still deploy that with a config management system! :D
