microsoft / microsoft/terminal
Terminal does not detect PowerShell LTS MSIX
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Issue-Bug
Priority-3
Product-Terminal
- Dominant language
- C++
- Stars
- 105k
- Forks
- 9.6k
- Avg merge
- 3d 17h
- Merged PRs (30d)
- 29
Description
Starting with PowerShell 7.6.0, the LTS release ships as a separate MSIX package with its own PFN: `Microsoft.PowerShell-LTS_8wekyb3d8bbwe`
Terminal's profile generator only looks for stable and preview.
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
Start by locating Terminal's profile generator and its handling of stable and preview PowerShell packages. Check how the PFN Microsoft.PowerShell-LTS_8wekyb3d8bbwe should be recognized, then verify that generated profiles include the PowerShell LTS MSIX installation.
Written by the indexing model from the issue text.
Assessment
- Tech stack
- cpp, powershell
- Domain
- cli, operating-systems
- Issue type
- Bug
- Difficulty
- 2/5
- Estimated time
- 1-3 hours
- Activity status
- Quiet
- Clarity
- Mostly clear
- Newbie friendliness
- 72/100