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Re:PowerShell vs. Unix shells by MatthewPhillips on Friday July 13, 2012 @07:32AM (#4239313)
> However, PowerShell is still treated as a second class citizen in the Windows eco-system, and that is, imho, its biggest weakness.

I don't know about that. Microsoft operates NuGet (the .NET equivalent of NPM or Gems) and the way of downloading packages is through powershell (albeit a specially docked version inside Visual Studio).

I agree that it's treated as second class in that most utilities are not designed with it in mind first but I can see that changing over time. They are already excellent Powershell equivalents of Make and Apt/Yum by third parties. Third parties have embraced it pretty strongly.

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Re:PowerShell vs. Unix shells by recursive on Friday July 13, 2012 @09:13AM (#4239648)
I have never touched power shell during my use of nuget fwiw. I'm not even sure how to if I wanted to. As far as I can tell it's just a graphical user interface. There might be some command line options somewhere but it does not seem like a first class citizen.
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Re:PowerShell vs. Unix shells by MatthewPhillips on Friday July 13, 2012 @09:18AM (#4239663)
If you go to any package on nuget.org, it's the way you're instructed to install. For example:

http://nuget.org/packages/Nancy

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