[Nottingham] MS uses PowerShell to break compatibility on Linux

[Martin]

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On 22/08/16 09:07, Jason Irwin via Nottingham wrote:
> Or...
> 
> A decision was taken years ago in isolation, which now turns out to
> have been a bit silly and needs fixing.
> 
> Either way, some of these comments make for some comedic reading: 
> https://github.com/PowerShell/PowerShell/pull/1901

Note the agonising on there about possibly breaking PowerShell scripts
written on Windows that may rely on the erroneous operation...

Myself, (to badly misuse a term) /surely/ an easy and compatible way
out is to have an environment variable that defaults to the erroneous
Windows way of working and that can be set to expose instead the *nix
way of things when set for a particular script... Easy?


In the surprisingly long discussion, ya just gotta LOVE the enthusiastic:

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You bring up a great point. We added a number of aliases for Unix
commands but if someone has installed those commands on WIndows, those
aliases screw them up.

We need to fix this.

The only Q is what is the best way to do so? As Joey points out -
having shipped these, removing them is a breaking change. ...
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Wow, great discussion!

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Thanks for providing input to make PowerShell great

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What might this all mean? Hopefully that enthusiasm is all genuine
enthusiasm for discovering the power of FLOSS cooperation.



Meanwhile, for an encore:


*Windows Update borks PowerShell – Microsoft won't fix it for a week*

'We apologize for any inconvenience that this might cause'

http://www.theregister.co.uk/2016/08/25/microsoft_breaks_powershell_with_borked_update_wont_fix_it_for_a_week/


... What was that about not causing breakage?...


One to watch further...

Cheers,
Martin



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