Endilll wrote:
> When I install Visual Studio, it creates a widget that brings up a cmd shell
> with the right environment. I'm not aware of a similar widget for PowerShell.
At least in VS 2022, there is a `Developer PowerShell for VS 2022` in Start
menu beside the usual `x64 Native Tools
pogo59 wrote:
I have no stake in Apple/Swift, but for myself, `cmd` is the natural shell to
use on Windows. (When I install Visual Studio, it creates a widget that brings
up a `cmd` shell with the right environment. I'm not aware of a similar widget
for PowerShell.) While I rarely try to
jdenny-ornl wrote:
> I think that might be a bit too accelerated. I work mostly with a fork of
> LLVM (https://github.com/apple/llvm-project) and do care about the usability
> of `cmd` as a shell (however, it is significantly behind but is working on
> updating to a more recent version). I
jdenny-ornl wrote:
Thanks for everyone's comments so far.
This PR is not ready to land. As discussed, it doesn't fully fix support for
windows `cmd` as a lit external shell. Given how long that use case has been
broken (apparently since April, 2022), it seems that's a use case no one cares
