Huge thanks to our Platinum Members Endace and LiveAction,
and our Silver Member Veeam, for supporting the Wireshark Foundation and project.

Wireshark-dev: [Wireshark-dev] hpfrommer@xxxxxxxxxxx - Re: Is PowerShell now a requirement for

From: "Gerald Combs" <gerald@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Fri, 8 Aug 2014 04:30:48 +0200
Title: hpfrommer@xxxxxxxxxxx - Re: [Wireshark-dev] Is PowerShell now a requirement for Windowsbuilds?

On 8/7/14, 6:41 PM, Guy Harris wrote:
>
> On Aug 7, 2014, at 6:00 PM, "Gerald Combs (Code Review)" <code-review-do-not-reply@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
>> Gerald Combs has uploaded a new change for review.
>>
>>  https://code.wireshark.org/review/3487
>>
>> Change subject: Provide our own version of unix2dos.
>> .....................................................................
>>
>> Provide our own version of unix2dos.
>>
>> Add a unix2dos PowerShell script which converts UNIX / POSIX line endings
>> to Windows / DOS. Remove dos2unix as a dependency.
>
> Does that - and the use of a PowerShell command in the Makefile.nmake for building an NSIS package - make PowerShell a requirement for Windows builds?

Yes.

> If so, then does it come with all versions of Windows on which we support building, or does it have to be downloaded and installed on any of them?

It's a separate install for Windows Vista. Windows 7 ships with
PowerShell 2.0 and Windows 8 ships with 3.0. I'm not sure how many
developers are running Vista or (or XP) but we should list it as a
requirement.

Chocolatey and NuGet both require PowerShell 2.0. I can't tell if it's
required by newer versions of Visual Studio.
___________________________________________________________________________
Sent via:    Wireshark-dev mailing list <wireshark-dev@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Archives:    http://www.wireshark.org/lists/wireshark-dev
Unsubscribe: https://wireshark.org/mailman/options/wireshark-dev
             mailto:wireshark-dev-request@xxxxxxxxxxxxx?subject=unsubscribe