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Weave GitOps CLI support for Windows / document the WSL path

Open sympatheticmoose opened this issue 4 years ago • 6 comments

We should:

  • [ ] provide a windows binary
  • [ ] figure out appropriate testing strategy
  • [ ] investigate adding a windows machine to our CI
  • [ ] provide a Chocolatey package

sympatheticmoose avatar Aug 25 '21 10:08 sympatheticmoose

Was this closed because support is added, or has it been taken off the roadmap?

Windows support is a common question, we should leave a breadcrumb to some instructions for how to use the Weave GitOps CLI with WSL and homebrew/linuxbrew, if that's the one canonical recommended method for Windows users.

kingdonb avatar Feb 09 '22 18:02 kingdonb

I believe this was likely closed by mistake as the team focussed on changes which have now merged. Re-opening as this is still on the radar.

sympatheticmoose avatar Mar 16 '22 10:03 sympatheticmoose

Hey @kingdonb, it's been a while since anyone commented on this issue -- what do you think we should do now/next, many months later? Still the same recommendation, or something new/different?

lasomethingsomething avatar Jun 16 '23 10:06 lasomethingsomething

If there is no one to own the GitOps CLI for Windows, and one hasn't been produced yet, then I think the next best thing is to document the WSL path. I haven't been a windows user for a while, so I'm not the best person to decide the path here. But if there are any blockers to producing and testing the Windows CLI, I'd love to see them enumerated.

I think we could try cross-compiling and just put one out there, but I don't think it's entirely appropriate to take the "let any users report the bugs" approach unless we have some users we can point at who are using it with any degree of success.

@juozasg might be able to help us as a user

kingdonb avatar Jun 26 '23 16:06 kingdonb

This would still be a nice to have. I have a connectivity issue to an environment that requires a windows vpn and WSL is broken for me.

d3287t328 avatar Aug 01 '23 15:08 d3287t328