Feedback Request: Dropping Support for PowerShell 5.1 about posh-acme HOT 5 OPEN

As you can install PowerShell 6+ side by side with the old PS, there is no reason not to install the new one.
So, yes, go for it and only use PS7+ if it makes life easier for you.

from posh-acme.

I totally understand wanting to simplify the target versions of powershell. Certify The Web does currently use (some of) the 5.1 version via net462 and the standard windows powershell functionality but if we have to pin to a certain version of posh-acme that's ok for now. Eventually we'll be on dotnet core for the app (in some form) and increasingly we will be targeting non-windows platforms.

from posh-acme.

Are you actually using the separate Posh-ACME.net46 version I’m still maintaining, @webprofusion-chrisc? Or just the mainline version?

from posh-acme.

@rmbolger no just main so perhaps we've not using anything specific to .net framework at all. The majority of what we do use are the plugins under Posh-ACME/Plugins, we do source /public and /private in case the plugins use something from there: https://github.com/webprofusion/certify/blob/development/src/Certify.Shared.Extensions/Scripts/DNS/PoshACME/Posh-ACME-Wrapper.ps1 and we use our own copy of the bouncycastle dll.

from posh-acme.

I still depend on PowerShell 5.1 due to a dependency on .NET Framework, but it's a heavy burden to maintain backward compatibility even for a for-profit organization let alone an open-source project. I vote to drop support for 5.1 if it means reduced maintenance effort on your part. The opportunity to drop test automation on Windows, or at least keeping all tests on Linux/Windows on the same pwsh shell is nice.

For context, I work for a software company and don't have control over our customer environments. Most of our customers don't use PowerShell so they wouldn't typically have anything newer than 5.1 installed but they would typically be fine with installing it if we asked them to or even added it as a dependency to our software in the future.

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