Idea: have a single user-local install of the actual binary

cspotcode / npm-pwsh

Install PowerShell via npm for use in npm scripts or elsewhere.

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Idea: have a single user-local install of the actual binary #10

Closed fearthecowboy closed 5 years ago

fearthecowboy commented 5 years ago

get-powershell is really similar in nature to the dotnet-2.1 and dotnet-2.0.0 packages that I built. The difference is that I installed the actual platform specific binary in $home/.net\.... so that multiple installs would not have to have a separate copy of the binary.

Might be an idea to not install the binary relative to the installed npm package, but scope it to a common location.

fearthecowboy commented 5 years ago

Oh. It does

my bad.

cspotcode commented 5 years ago

Yes! Great minds think alike. Good to know about those dotnet packages; I'm getting into C# a bit more so I might be using them soon.

fearthecowboy commented 5 years ago

Yeah, I needed a decent, cross platform install that didn't require elevation/root.

Took a bit of tweaking to build the dependent packages just right, but they seem to work pretty nicely.