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Wow people are too lazy to simply create a new alias to the Curl/Wget that they want.. What's the world coming to.
by wangchow 10y ago
Wow people are too lazy to simply create a new alias to the Curl/Wget that they want.. What's the world coming to.
- UnoriginalGuy 10y agoThe problem isn't about laziness, it is about defaults. If Microsoft removed them, installing an update to PS could literally break existing scripts. Sure, you can trivially fix it by re-creating the aliases, but only after you realise that an Update broke it.
- wangchow 10y agoExactly, which is why they can't just switch it back. But people are on the attack about something so trivial. For anyone who needs "the de-facto curl or wget" then create a custom alias or re-assign the old one. It's a minor inconvenience, whereas if Microsoft were to patch it and break existing systems that would be more worthy of criticism..
- jessaustin 10y agoOne imagines a sort of "boilerplate" at the top of every script, patiently fixing various P$ mistakes before the script actually gets to work. I've seen similar things in other challenged environments.