It's always been my opinion that PowerShell (powerscript?) has been poorly
named -- it's a lackluster /shell/ although things like
psreadline,powershell_ise,etc make it less awful as a shell on windows but
it's great as interpreted (ish -- see DLR/JIT) .NET -- you can compile C#
inside of it or cal
To be honest.
I think that Bash is way more useful for sys admin work. Shipping
PowerShell to linux will be a total disaster.
On Fri, 19 Aug 2016, 07:17 Christian Hesse, wrote:
> Hunter Connelly via arch-general on Thu,
> 2016/08/18 21:28:
> > On Thu, Aug 18, 2016 at 09:00:33PM -0400, Eli Schwa
Hunter Connelly via arch-general on Thu,
2016/08/18 21:28:
> On Thu, Aug 18, 2016 at 09:00:33PM -0400, Eli Schwartz via arch-general
> wrote:
> > Why would anyone want to use an overly-verbose scripting language like
> > PowerShell as an interactive shell, **unless it was their only option**?
>
> PowerShell, being an object-oriented language
When we need an object oriented language for administering (or scripting)
Arch , why not use Python (or one of our other OO options)? Is there any
strong use case for PowerShell on Arch given the tools that are already
available?
I only see one use
On 08/18/2016 09:28 PM, Hunter Connelly via arch-general wrote:
> While I tend to prefer Unix-style shells, there are *some* things that
> PowerShell does better.
>
> Here's an example I found on Reddit in the thread about this on /r/linux.
> Both of the following commands find the size and name o
On 08/18/2016 09:09 PM, Ido Rosen wrote:
> Personal opinions aside, we should treat it like any other package:
> if it gets enough votes and is popular, it can move from AUR to
> community just like any other free open source software.
Um, yeah. That's why I said "But I don't see it being very pop
On Thu, Aug 18, 2016 at 09:00:33PM -0400, Eli Schwartz via arch-general wrote:
> Why would anyone want to use an overly-verbose scripting language like
> PowerShell as an interactive shell, **unless it was their only option**?
While I tend to prefer Unix-style shells, there are *some* things that
On Thu, 18 Aug 2016 21:00:33 -0400
Eli Schwartz via arch-general wrote:
> On 08/18/2016 08:35 PM, Kyle Terrien via arch-general wrote:
> > I haven't used PowerShell much. But in briefly looking at it, the
> > commands are very verbose compared to Unix/Linux. E.g. grep is
> > something like Get-I
On 08/18/2016 08:35 PM, Kyle Terrien via arch-general wrote:
> I haven't used PowerShell much. But in briefly looking at it, the
> commands are very verbose compared to Unix/Linux. E.g. grep is
> something like Get-Item.
>
> My Windows survival kit currently consists of Cygwin, which still kicks
On Thu, 18 Aug 2016 19:30:27 -0400
Hunter Connelly via arch-general wrote:
> https://github.com/powershell/powershell
>
> I was wondering what you guys thought about it.
> Specifically, if any of you will be using it, if you think it should
> be in the main repos, what this might mean for the fut
Recently, Microsoft released the source code for PowerShell under the MIT
license.
Here's the link for that.
https://github.com/powershell/powershell
I was wondering what you guys thought about it.
Specifically, if any of you will be using it, if you think it should be in the
main repos, what t
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