daniel:// stenberg://Aug 19, 2024

Exactly eight years ago #Microsoft made powershell open source and I *immediately* filed a pull request to remove their #curl alias...

Did not really work.

https://daniel.haxx.se/blog/2016/08/19/removing-the-powershell-curl-alias/

Removing the PowerShell curl alias?

PowerShell is a spiced up command line shell made by Microsoft. According to some people, it is a really useful and good shell alternative. Already a long time ago, we got bug reports from confused users who couldn't use curl from their PowerShell prompts and it didn't take long until we figured out that Microsoft … Continue reading Removing the PowerShell curl alias? →

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Show threadT.J. Crowder
@bagder It was asinine to add the aliases without any attempt to handle arguments correctly. It was asinine not to fix it when you pointed it out. It's not like we don't know, as an industry, how to handle breaking changes. You phase them in with increasing warnings until, yes, you break people's scripts. FFS.
Aug 19, 2024 at 9:56amWeb
Show threaddaniel:// stenberg://Aug 19, 2024
@tjcrowdertech yeah, there was just that tiny little thing that was lacking: will