PowerShell Community Call - August 15, 2019
- RFCs
- Process overall
- Make sure to check out
- Foreach-Object -Parallel
- Ternary
- Secrets management
- PowerShellGet 3.0
- Point to Jason
- Preview 3 release
- Out-GridView
- Stance on Windows
- ISE
- Remainder of questions
- RFCs
- Keep eyes peeled for blog on RFC process
- Check out 7.0-Consider milestone on PowerShell-RFC repo to give opinion on RFCs
PS Team would like for 7.0
- Also looking at community RFCs
- Jason is putting together a YouTube video on RFC process and ErrorView in particular
- Current ErrorView tends to obscure a lot of the important aspects of the error message with verbosity,
and we're looking to simplify it significantly.
- PowerShell 7 releases
- 7.0-Preview.3 is releasing next week
- There will be a preview.4
- We would like to ship at the end of this calendar year to align (roughly) with .NET Core 3.1 GA
- Desire to have a release candidate (RC) in November
- Only critical bug fixes assuming that there are no major problems with this release
- If something is experimental in RC, it will stay experimental in GA
- Out-GridView working fully cross-platform with
-PassThru
support
- Also has a "Show Code" button that saves your column filters as
Where-Object
filters
- Con: ships at 280 MBs due to native GUI code for each OS
- Looking for opportunities to reduce this in the future
- One hacky proposal: delete the other native dependencies at install time
- Check out the repo at https://github.com/powershell/GraphicalTools
- Long-term, we have a desire to support RIDs at install-time in the Gallery, no ETA there
- Update on putting SQL module on GitHub?
- Nothing to share right now
- Guest management cmdlets on macOS/Linux
- The WindowsCompatibility module works through Windows PowerShell / .NET
in order to run those Windows PS cmdlets.
We may invest in native binary wrappers for macOS/Linux in the future,
but nothing we're committing to now.
- Code/test coverage
- Jim looking to tools like Coverlet for cross-platform code coverage
- Jim will create an issue in the PowerShell issue for anyone looking to help out there
- Backlog of community PRs
- Team is focused on some feature work, and will pivot back to more PR reviews soon