Great news on cross-platform PSCore possibility! Mark S. wrote:
> 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. > The *BufferSize* is under the # CONSOLE section. That entire console section may not be required on Linux. The BufferSize sets the "internal" size of Windows console (not the actual size of displayed window which I set in the batch file launchers). I set it it wide and high so (1) long lines don't wrap; (2) you can scroll up what has happened without the buffer running out. > There were some conflicts between linux alias names and PS names. They can > be resolved by using full PS names. > OK. Changing all aliases to full PS names might be a good idea. Makes code longer but perhaps more readable cross-platform There may or may not be some issues relating to the path separator, but > further testing is required. > This is an interesting issue.* \ v. /*. I noticed on Windows a lot of time you can use them interchangeably. Hopefully PSCore supports that so we don't need to change too much. > At the moment it looks like it might be possible to make Polly forward > compatible with Powershell Core 6, > Sounds like it could be done! Mostly, in future, I'll comment on tech on GHub. TT -- 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/c16fc147-b19f-4628-bcf3-4ab2631935b8%40googlegroups.com.
