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by UnoriginalGuy 3594 days ago
Powershell is an object world, cURL is a string utility. You wouldn't want to bundle it, you want people to use Invoke-WebRequest (current cURL alias).

The alis just needs to be removed. They should replace it with a manpage that suggests cmdlets for popular UNIX commands if those commands aren't found (e.g. if curl returns "not found" it tacks on, "You could try XYZ cmdlet instead").

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Powershell is an object world, cURL is a string utility. You wouldn't want to bundle it, you want people to use Invoke-WebRequest (current cURL alias).

Specifically, for non PS users reading, Invoke-WebRequest returns n object with the page content parsed and a live DOM to work with, as well as the request headers and the raw data. It's very convenient.

Including curl.exe would not do that.