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Your wget (and curl) is Broken and Should DIE, GitHubbers Tell Microsoft

posted by cmn32480 on Tuesday August 23 2016, @10:58AM   Printer-friendly
from the parts-of-the-basic-toolset dept.

"exec" writes:

Well, that didn't take long: within a week of applause for Microsoft's decision to open-source PowerShell, a comment-war has broken out over curl and wget.

For those not familiar with these commands: they're open source command line tools for fetching Internet content without a browser. Apart from obvious applications like downloading whole sites (for example as backup), they're also under the hood for a lot of other toolsets (an example the author is familiar with – GIS tools use curl and/or wget to fetch maps from Web services).

For some reason, Microsoft's team decided to put aliases for curl and wget in Windows PowerShell – but, as this thread begins, those aliases don't deliver curl and wget functionality.

The pull request says the aliases should be spiked: "They block use of the commonly used command line tools without providing even an attempt to offer the same functionality. They serve no purpose for PowerShell users but cause confusion and problems to existing curl and wget users."

http://www.theregister.co.uk/2016/08/23/your_wget_is_broken_and_should_die_powershellers_tell_microsoft/

-- submitted from IRC

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  • (Score: 1, Funny) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday August 23 2016, @12:29PM

    by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday August 23 2016, @12:29PM (#392081)

    Bash is Windows. Shell is Windows. All is Windows. We are Windows. Windows is all. Windows is Shell. Windows is Bash. Bash is not bash. Windows is bash. Shell is not shell. Windows is shell. All are Windows. We are Windows. Windows is all. We are Windows. Windows is all. Shell is Windows. Bash is Windows. Obey Windows. All are Windows. We are Windows. All are Windows. All obey. We are all. All will obey.

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  • (Score: 2) by Gaaark on Tuesday August 23 2016, @01:09PM

    by Gaaark (41) on Tuesday August 23 2016, @01:09PM (#392097) Journal

    One of us!
    One of us!
    One of us!

    And...
    Resistance is futile...

    --
    --- Please remind me if I haven't been civil to you: I'm channeling MDC. ---Gaaark 2.0 ---

    • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday August 23 2016, @01:13PM

      by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday August 23 2016, @01:13PM (#392099)

      Part of the ship! Part of the crew! Part of the ship! Part of the crew! Part of the ship! Part of the crew! Part of the ship! Part of the crew!

      also

      You will be upgraded.

  • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday August 23 2016, @08:12PM

    by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday August 23 2016, @08:12PM (#392272)

    Ivan, please go and "bear hug" Satan Nutella for me... embrace and extinguish.

  • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday August 23 2016, @08:24PM

    by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday August 23 2016, @08:24PM (#392275)

    As Gaaark alluded to, it is more like:

    We are Windows. Lower your shields and surrender your computer. We will add your biological and technological distinctiveness to our own. Your OS will adapt to service us. Resistance is futile.