Re: FWD: Org-Babel Support for Powershell

[stardiviner]

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stanislaw_lem--- via General discussions about Org-mode. 
<emacs-orgmode@gnu.org> writes:

> Hi,
>
> I ask the maintainer of org-babel Bastien Guerry <http://bzg.fr>, if it is 
> possible to include Powershell support for org-babel. Monsieur Guerry told me 
> to ask you via email.
>
> Powershell 5.1 is now an important tool for Infrastructure as Code in the 
> Windows Server world. Windows administrator often encounter mixed IT 
> Landscape with Windows and Linux servers. While it is possible to do network 
> automation with Python with org-babel for the Linux server - you still cannot 
> do Literate Programming in Powershell for Windows server.
>
> I think Literate Programming is a very productive idea for system 
> administration. It is very difficult to establish a Living Documentation 
> policy with Powershell, because of the lack of Literate Programming tools 
> with Powershell support. Currently available Powershell support for 
> Powershell is limited to syntax highlighting and external execution of 
> Powershell commands from code fences. The results of execution of Powershell 
> code snippets is not shown within the Emacs buffer.
>
> With Powershell 7 we got now a cross-platform scripting language for Windows 
> and Linux OS. I think in the future Powershell administration will get more 
> and more important - not only for deployment, but also for cyber security 
> defense of Windows server.
>  
> Yours sincerely
>
> Stanislaw Lem

I remember already there are some ob-powershell relative projects. You might
want to work and improve features on those work. And integrate it into Org Mode.

- - https://gist.github.com/cbilson/ae0d90d163be4d769f8a15ddb58292bc
- - https://github.com/togakangaroo/ob-pwsh

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