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Improve Windows installation experience #107
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This is currently a significant road bump in the Windows install experience, so it deserves to be mentioned.
Reading https://stackoverflow.com/questions/46901071/readkey-not-working-in-net-core/46952718 and subsequently https://github.com/MicrosoftDocs/azure-docs/issues/30917 made me realize there is actually a workaround for this which is quite simple. Quoting https://github.com/MicrosoftDocs/azure-docs/issues/30917#issuecomment-492173859:
So, what we should do:
Once this is done, we should be able to remove the warning from https://perlang.org/download 🎉 |
Our current download instructions at https://perlang.org/download/ suggests the usage of Git Bash on Windows. Well, too bad it doesn't really work at all after installation in that shell though. 😒
Interestingly enough, it works pretty fine in a regular
cmd.exe
window after installation though, so I think it would be pretty much enough at this stage to:cmd.exe
on Windows instead of Git Bash.)Worth mentioning is that things seem to work nicely in WSL, though.
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