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by felixfbecker
2809 days ago
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It doesn't look like they put any thought into how to make this appeal to Windows devs. One would have expected support for using PowerShell for scripts. Instead, they use git bash (which is definitely less familiar to Windows devs than even cmd) and one has to use `pwsh -c` which adds tons of pitfalls around quoting, error handling, multi-line scripts etc. I also would have expected a way to specify choco packages to install like you can specify apt-get packages, instead you need to shell out. These are very obvious things (just look at AppVeyor and VSTS/Azure DevOps pipelines) that they could have easily done. It just looks like second-class integration to me, something to appeal to cross-platform projects that want to easily run their tests on Windows, but nothing serious for pure Windows devs. This is nice for open source projects, but it means for them that they have to pay a lot more for resources, without having increased their target user base to get more revenue. They're missing an opportunity. |
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