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Re: Is PowerShell now a requirement for Windows builds?
From: Graham Bloice <graham.bloice () trihedral com>
Date: Fri, 8 Aug 2014 10:39:40 +0100
On 8 August 2014 03:46, Guy Harris <guy () alum mit edu> wrote:
On Aug 7, 2014, at 7:30 PM, Gerald Combs <gerald () wireshark org> wrote:On 8/7/14, 6:41 PM, Guy Harris wrote:Does that - and the use of a PowerShell command in the Makefile.nmakefor building an NSIS package - make PowerShell a requirement for Windows builds?Yes.If so, then does it come with all versions of Windows on which wesupport building, or does it have to be downloaded and installed on any of them?It's a separate install for Windows Vista. Windows 7 ships with PowerShell 2.0 and Windows 8 ships with 3.0. I'm not sure how many developers are running Vista or (or XP) but we should list it as a requirement.And perhaps indicate, in the developer's guide, how to install it on Vista.Chocolatey and NuGet both require PowerShell 2.0. I can't tell if it's required by newer versions of Visual Studio.So presumably that means that you need to install 2.0 on Vista.
PS scripts can indicate via a keyword (#Requires) which version of PS they require, we should make sure we set that in our scripts. Apart from PowerShell, there are also limitations on the toolchain, e.g. VS2013 isn't supported on Vista and we're aiming to make that the "favoured" toolchain post 1.12. As Gerald says, I'm not sure how many devs are building on Vista and while we're not (currently) aiming to cast them adrift, they should think about a move to at least Win 7. I think those building on XP should look to move right now, the clock is definitely into overtime. -- Graham Bloice
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Current thread:
- Is PowerShell now a requirement for Windows builds? Guy Harris (Aug 07)
- Re: Is PowerShell now a requirement for Windows builds? Gerald Combs (Aug 07)
- Re: Is PowerShell now a requirement for Windows builds? Guy Harris (Aug 07)
- Re: Is PowerShell now a requirement for Windows builds? Graham Bloice (Aug 08)
- Re: Is PowerShell now a requirement for Windows builds? Gerald Combs (Aug 11)
- Re: Is PowerShell now a requirement for Windows builds? Guy Harris (Aug 07)
- hpfrommer () hilscher cc - Re: Is PowerShell now a requirement for Windowsbuilds? Guy Harris (Aug 08)
- Re: Is PowerShell now a requirement for Windows builds? Gerald Combs (Aug 07)
- hpfrommer () hilscher cc - Re: Is PowerShell now a requirement for Windowsbuilds? Gerald Combs (Aug 08)