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Powershell for Linux fails the Litmus test of "Is it in the Debian community repo"

This means it's either

- Some "Open Core" bullshit with the secret sauce conveniently tucked away in some proprietary blob or restrictive license submodule

- Has a build process so convoluted and mystery-meat-dependency filled it's not worth to bother with.

- Has so many anti features it would require an extensive patchset (like ungoogled-chromium) to fix.

So it might be interesting technology, but it's not something I'd deploy by default to every server and expect to work in 5 years time.



https://github.com/PowerShell/PowerShell/blob/master/LICENSE... is the MIT license. (Microsoft supplies debs directly which may reduce the motivation for Debian to do so.)

Oh, heh, also https://github.com/PowerShell/PowerShell/blob/master/docs/bu... the build script is written in PowerShell, so there's a bootstrapping problem :-) (Debian has solved those before of course, but with community sentiment like the above maybe noone is motivated to bother.)




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