Powershell: Make PowerShell Core availabe as a .NET global tool
PowerShell Core should be available as a global tool so installing PowerShell for use in a build environment would be as simple as dotnet tool install pwsh
The 6.1 release notes say this is "coming soon" but it's been 3 months and as far as I can tell there is still no tool package for PSCore
jcotton42
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/cc @joeyaiello @SteveL-MSFT
iSazonov
on 11 Dec 2018
Work has started on this. However, @adityapatwardhan is currently on vacation. Perhaps we'll get it early next year.
SteveL-MSFT
on 15 Dec 2018
In .Net Core 3.0 there is a _Local dotnet tools_.
https://github.com/dotnet/cli/issues/10288
iSazonov
on 15 Dec 2018
Checking in on the status of this issue.
I see it's marked in the Future milestone but it was also marked as "soon" in the 6.1 release notes.
jcotton42
on 1 Feb 2019
Work is on-going on this. Hopefully next month.
SteveL-MSFT
on 1 Feb 2019
@SteveL-MSFT excellent
jcotton42
on 1 Feb 2019
Is this going to make it into 6.2?
jcotton42
on 7 Mar 2019
In all likelihood this will make it in 6.2
adityapatwardhan
on 7 Mar 2019
I see 6.2 is out now, did this make it in?
jcotton42
on 28 Mar 2019
@jcotton42 There's some additional work needed before this is available as a dotnet global tool, but it's still happening. Probably in April.
SteveL-MSFT
on 29 Mar 2019
@SteveL-MSFT is there any way I could contribute to that work? I'm pretty busy with school but might find time to help.
jcotton42
on 29 Mar 2019
@jcotton42 I appreciate the offer, but it's not engineering work on our side that we're waiting on
SteveL-MSFT
on 29 Mar 2019
Just looking at the latest .NET SDK 3.0 preview Dockerfiles it looks like it's installing PowerShell as a dotnet tool.
https://github.com/dotnet/dotnet-docker/blob/master/3.0/sdk/stretch/arm64v8/Dockerfile
AceHack
on 19 Apr 2019
@AceHack Nice observation, but not 100% correct. It is installing that nupkg as a dotnet tool, but "soon", you should just be able to do: dotnet tool install powershell without pre-downloading the nupkg.
SteveL-MSFT
on 19 Apr 2019
PowerShell v6.2.2 has been released as a global tool. Please give it a try.
adityapatwardhan
on 17 Jul 2019
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Work is on-going on this. Hopefully next month.