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Feature Request: install-powershell.ps1: Being able to install latest servicing/LTS release and not just Current #15403
Description
Summary of the new feature/enhancement
install-powershell.ps1 offers the option of installing Current, preview or daily but not LTS. This would e.g. be useful to test the LTS version as well in CI as hosted agents like LTS are usually on the Current version.
Proposed technical implementation details (optional)
The metadata.json file is already used to determine the right version and already has the version of the last servicing/LTS release. The script is not elegant as it already has a switch for preview and daily, therefore adding a LTS switch would at least keep it consistent as we'd likely not want to break existing syntax.
Reacted by p0W3RH311 and Rain Sallow (/u/ta11ow)
Reacted by Marek Konopski
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adityapatwardhan commentedon May 25, 2021
Maintainers reviewed the issue and we think it is a good idea. Eventually we will be having more that one LTS releases so there would be some need to specify which version needs to be installed.
bergmeister commentedon Jun 3, 2021
So are you saying that an -LTS switch would not be acceptable? To me it sounds like the current and lts switches should just install the latest lts or current 'flavour'. Anything that is not latest current or latest lts, a version switch could be offered instead where people can pin major and minor version?
kilasuit commentedon Jul 31, 2023
Hey Christoph Bergmeister (@bergmeister) I have been working on this as part of #19883 as hadn't seen this request whilst I was looking through the issues sorry. The PR for it is #19884 so hopefully should be merged soon :-)
Only thing not in that PR is for the Servicing Release - if still wanted I can add that in too
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kilasuit commentedon Feb 15, 2024
This is still
In-PRChristoph Bergmeister (@bergmeister) until that PR is merged you can make use of the version of it from my fork as per the code samples in this blog post of mine Installing PowerShell Side by Side for testing purposes to install specific versions too, though I'm gonna spend a little more time on this to give it more durability than it has right now as this hasn't yet been merged.
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