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awslabs / aws-shell

An integrated shell for working with the AWS CLI.
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It looks like the project is abandoned and therefore it's promotions must be stopped #266

Open mclayer opened 2 years ago

mclayer commented 2 years ago

aws-shell is abandoned. The last update was 2 years ago. It doesn't support aws-cli v2. As a result some people decide to use the older version of aws-cli. But many of aws-shell features are implemented in aws-cli v2 by itself.

I lost several hours before I got understanding that I should use just aws-cli v2 instead. There are many like me. For example, look at the issue https://github.com/awslabs/aws-shell/issues/238. Two years of never-ending struggle.

I think aws-shell should be marked as abandoned/deprecated. It should be removed from pages like https://aws.amazon.com/cli/ where it is promoted as Developer preview - something from the future with active development not from the past with zero activity for the last 2+ years. It's confusing a lot.

logikonabstractions commented 1 year ago

Same here. This is ridiculous. The idea is great - because frankly working with aws-cli is not much fun. It feels like a terminal designed in the 90s. One would think the biggest cloud provider could afford to provide decent tools to developers.

omenking commented 1 year ago

Okay, so I thought this project was active because its listed right at the top of the AWS Documentation for AWS CLI:

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I was working on free learning content creating a lab and videos for AWS-Shell, but now I realize that the same functionality can be done with: aws --cli-auto-prompt

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AWS, please remove it from the documentation if this isn't going to be a properly maintained project because it was quite misleading for me and I was able to just mislead a bunch of folks.

huyz commented 1 year ago

Frankly, open source developers have a responsibility to make it clear to users when their projects become abandoned.

hyandell commented 1 year ago

I agree. I'm going to contact internally within AWS to get attention and presumably to archive/EOL this repository.

jeslinmx commented 1 year ago

I was working on free learning content creating a lab and videos for AWS-Shell, but now I realize that the same functionality can be done with: aws --cli-auto-prompt

Thanks for this! Worth noting that you can have this automatically trigger whenever you run a plain aws or an otherwise incomplete command by adding this to your .aws/config:

[default]
...
cli_auto_prompt = on-partial
...

Not quite as fast or seamless as having a dedicated shell (which could literally just be aws --cli-auto-prompt in a REPL), but oh well.