Re: Bug#834756: ITP: powershell -- scripting language interpreter built on .NET

2016-08-20 Thread Michael Lustfield
On Thu, Aug 18, 2016 at 12:17 PM, Marcin Kulisz wrote: > On 2016-08-18 16:27:23, Luke W Faraone wrote: >> Package: wnpp >> Severity: wishlist >> Owner: Luke W Faraone >> >> * Package name: powershell >> Version : 6.0.0~alpha9 >> Upstream

Re: Bug#834756: ITP: powershell -- scripting language interpreter built on .NET

2016-08-19 Thread Zlatan Todoric
On 08/19/2016 08:15 PM, Mario Lang wrote: Christoph Egger writes: Marcin Kulisz writes: Most likely I'm missing something but what's the use case for Powershell on I don't know, what's the usecase for tcsh or lua? tcsh is to support legacy

Re: Bug#834756: ITP: powershell -- scripting language interpreter built on .NET

2016-08-19 Thread Mario Lang
Christoph Egger writes: > Marcin Kulisz writes: >> Most likely I'm missing something but what's the use case for Powershell on > > I don't know, what's the usecase for tcsh or lua? tcsh is to support legacy scripts, but, very good question: What *is*

Re: Bug#834756: ITP: powershell -- scripting language interpreter built on .NET

2016-08-19 Thread Harlan Lieberman-Berg
On August 19, 2016 10:44:44 AM EDT, Marcin Kulisz wrote: >Ha, so we're trying lure Windows admins to Debian under the pretence of >'you >can do the same from Debian' and then quietly make them drop >proprietary >platforms. Sounds like a good plan to me. Embrace, extend,

Re: Bug#834756: ITP: powershell -- scripting language interpreter built on .NET

2016-08-19 Thread Marcin Kulisz
On 2016-08-19 15:34:14, Dimitri John Ledkov wrote: > On 18 August 2016 at 18:17, Marcin Kulisz wrote: > > Most likely I'm missing something but what's the use case for Powershell on > > Debian? > > On more practical note - there is a bunch of tooling and cmdtets to > manage

Re: Bug#834756: ITP: powershell -- scripting language interpreter built on .NET

2016-08-19 Thread Dimitri John Ledkov
On 18 August 2016 at 18:17, Marcin Kulisz wrote: > On 2016-08-18 16:27:23, Luke W Faraone wrote: >> Package: wnpp >> Severity: wishlist >> Owner: Luke W Faraone >> >> * Package name: powershell >> Version : 6.0.0~alpha9 >> Upstream Author :

Re: Bug#834756: ITP: powershell -- scripting language interpreter built on .NET

2016-08-18 Thread Christoph Egger
Marcin Kulisz writes: > Most likely I'm missing something but what's the use case for Powershell on I don't know, what's the usecase for tcsh or lua? Christoph -- 9FED 5C6C E206 B70A 5857 70CA 9655 22B9 D49A E731 Debian Developer | Lisp Hacker | CaCert Assurer

Re: Bug#834756: ITP: powershell -- scripting language interpreter built on .NET

2016-08-18 Thread Marcin Kulisz
On 2016-08-18 16:27:23, Luke W Faraone wrote: > Package: wnpp > Severity: wishlist > Owner: Luke W Faraone > > * Package name: powershell > Version : 6.0.0~alpha9 > Upstream Author : Microsoft > * URL : https://github.com/PowerShell/PowerShell >

Bug#834756: ITP: powershell -- scripting language interpreter built on .NET

2016-08-18 Thread Luke W Faraone
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Luke W Faraone * Package name: powershell Version : 6.0.0~alpha9 Upstream Author : Microsoft * URL : https://github.com/PowerShell/PowerShell * License : Expat Programming Lang: C# Description