I'd love it if they added console tabs and text reflow / resizing to powershell
I use PS all the time - and it's killing me that I need 4+ windows open to account for all the different projects I've got to work on at the same time.
Windows Management Framework V5 Preview
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Re: Windows Management Framework V5 Preview
#42If you like your FOSS I can recommend MSYS2. http://sourceforge.net/p/msys2 (disclaimer: I work on MSYS2)
I'm a *nix/FOSS guy with 15+ years of experience.
I spent a couple minutes trying to figure out what MSYS2 was from the project page/the project wiki/Google, and then just gave up.
Really, a single sentence on the summary page at http://sourceforge.net/projects/msys2 and the wiki at http://sourceforge.net/p/msys2/wiki/Home/ would go a long way.
For anyone else in the same boat, I assume this is a replacement for MSYS, which according to http://www.mingw.org/wiki/MSYS, is a "collection of GNU utilities such as bash, make, gawk and grep to allow building of applications and programs which depend on traditionally UNIX tools to be present."
Re: Windows Management Framework V5 Preview
#43I have been using Chocolatey for a while now without any regret. OneGet probably won't match apt-get at first but this step is definitively in the right direction. If all software providers would provide their repository information updating programs would finally be a one-klick (or one command)-operation.
Chocolatey is absolutely essential for a smoother Windows experience. That said, it still feels like a hack (hardly surprising), but it's nonetheless an invaluable one.
I use Chocolatey quite a bit now and can definitely agree with the hack aspect of it. It's not always clear when a package will need your input (since they couldn't automate that part) but for the most part it works.
I am hoping that since package management is now an official Microsoft effort, a large gain will be to address these "hacks".
The long term potential of this is that enterprise can build their own repository and push changes out as they wish. This would be the real value. Also, companies that already provide package/software deployment solutions will now have another tool to help them do this.
Re: Windows Management Framework V5 Preview
#44If you like your FOSS I can recommend MSYS2. http://sourceforge.net/p/msys2 (disclaimer: I work on MSYS2)
I'm a *nix/FOSS guy with 15+ years of experience. I spent a couple minutes trying to figure out what MSYS2 was from the project page/the project wiki/Google, and then just gave up. Really, a single sentence on the summary page at http://sourceforge.net/projects/msys2 and the wiki at http://sourceforge.net/p/msys2/wiki/Home/ would go a long way. For anyone else in the same boat, I assume this is a replacement for MSYS…
It looks to be a package manager for mingw packages:
http://www.mingw.org/wiki/MSYS
At a minimum, they should just put a URL to the above.
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#45This is actually pretty awesome. I liked package managers (using linux and Windows on dualboot), one of the best tools for Windows is Cygwin (using Linux commands in Windows).. Where i can automate a lot of (manual) work. It seems to me that Microsoft is going all-in on open-source and flexibility. If you are using Asp.Net, you should check out Owin and project Helios - http://blogs.msdn.com/b/webdev/archive/2014/02/…
If you use Cygwin a lot, you should check out MobaXTerm: http://mobaxterm.mobatek.net/ The Pro edition is pretty sweet.
At my school I frequently need to use Windows PCs, and having MobaXTerm on a flashdrive has been incredibly useful (installing Cygwin every time would be impractical).
It is very powerful, and has a plugin system if you need some extra feature.
Re: Windows Management Framework V5 Preview
#46If you like your FOSS I can recommend MSYS2. http://sourceforge.net/p/msys2 (disclaimer: I work on MSYS2)
This is the info I find after searching a bit:
http://sourceforge.net/p/msys2/wiki/MSYS2%20installation/
Seems like a bit of marketing is in order!
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#47Almost a meta comment, but Microsoft seems to be knocking their BUILD conference out of the park this year. I think we've already seen more notable announcements and improvements than we'll see at WWDC. Just the fact that there was a talk about developing iOS apps by the founder of Xamarin is telling. The fact that he was wearing Google Glass is another...
Yes, things are looking healthy for Microsoft's developer reputation. Now if only they implemented C99 and full POSIX....
Re: Windows Management Framework V5 Preview
#48I'd love it if they added console tabs and text reflow / resizing to powershell I use PS all the time - and it's killing me that I need 4+ windows open to account for all the different projects I've got to work on at the same time.
I've been using ConEmu just for the tabs. You can even have Powershell open in some tabs and PuTTY open in others (although that's a bit of a pain to set up).
I really don't like the default ConEmu configuration, but it's flexible enough that you can make it do just about anything if you poke at it enough.
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#49Am I reading correctly that this is a 2012R2-specific feature? Thanks, but what am I supposed to do for the rest of my Windows infrastructure?
WMF 4.0 with PS 4.0 and DSC etc are available down to windows 7 I imagine this will be the same.
This is WMF 5.0, so the business side at MS could easily decide to drop support for earlier Windows versions that 8.1/2012R2 - I doubt there's any technical limitation though.
Re: Windows Management Framework V5 Preview
#50I'd love it if they added console tabs and text reflow / resizing to powershell I use PS all the time - and it's killing me that I need 4+ windows open to account for all the different projects I've got to work on at the same time.
I agree. It's a big pain point for me. I've been using ConEmu recently which supports resizing and has tabs (among many other features). My favorite other feature is the tasks: you can define a set of steps to run as a task, then launch that task in a new tab.