microsoft / microsoft/terminal
[MEGATHREAD]: Future improvements to the Win32 Console API / Command line north star
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- Dominant language
- C++
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Description
_⚠️ work in progress 🏗️_
This thread makes no commitments to actually changing the console API. The party line remains that we're not making any changes to the API any time soon. Rather, we do need a place to aggregate changes we might want to make, should the opportunity present itself.
### The Console should support new APIs
* [ ] #12143
* [ ] #292
* [ ] ...
### "CLI apps need feature detection"
* [ ] #11057
* [ ] #7434
### Assorted
* A conclnt nuget package might let CLI apps use new APIs or new versions of the APIs. That's a thought.
Contributor guide
First steps
- Read the whole issue, then the project's contributing guide.
- Comment on the issue to say you are picking it up — it saves two people doing the same work.
- Fork the repository and make your change on a branch.
- Open a pull request that references the issue number.
Research direction
This work-in-progress megathread names no file, test, or implementation entry point. Start by reviewing linked issues #12143, #292, #11057, and #7434; work is complete only after a concrete API change is separately defined.
Written by the indexing model from the issue text.
Assessment
- Tech stack
- cpp
- Domain
- api, cli, operating-systems
- Issue type
- Feature
- Difficulty
- 5/5
- Estimated time
- Over a week
- Activity status
- Stale
- Clarity
- Needs clarification
- Newbie friendliness
- 20/100