I've been experimenting with Powershell Core on linux. It took less than 10 minutes to install, and takes about 150megs of space. So the barrier to usage is pretty low. It will be even lower if PS gets into the major distributions. For those who aren't familiar with Linux distributions, in Linux most distributions come with a package manager. With a package manager you don't have to hunt down software at individual web sites. Instead you just open the manager, tell it that you want Open Office, Firefox, and Gnumeric, and in a few minutes it's all installed.
The good news is that Polly's menus looked the same right out of the gate. Somehow PS handled the directory structures well enough that nothing special had to be done to see the usage file or load settings.ini. Obviously, the part of TT's code that invokes notepad would need to be tweaked. So far the only thing PS has completely rejected is the BufferSize setting. @TT -- how important is this setting? The screens looked OK. I'm thinking it would be possible to wrap the code with a check for platform so it doesn't throw an error. I haven't checked zipping yet. There were some conflicts between linux alias names and PS names. They can be resolved by using full PS names. There may or may not be some issues relating to the path separator, but further testing is required. I was able to perform a test run and restore and backup one file. Haven't gotten to parrots yet. At the moment it looks like it might be possible to make Polly forward compatible with Powershell Core 6, perhaps losing some functionality. I have zero access to Mac devices, so hopefully when it's available someone can help out there. Thanks! -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "TiddlyWiki" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/tiddlywiki/fff7f1a5-a492-48dd-83b5-7e49309d5b27%40googlegroups.com.
