Nushell core team meeting 2025-01-15

Attendees

• Darren
• Stefan
• Rose
• Ian
• Piepmatz
• Douglas
• Andy
• Michael
• Devyn
• Antoine
• Wind

Agenda

• Rename range command to slice
• Windows PWD per drive behavior
• FilePermission type?
• Aliasing modules.. solved?

For next meeting

• Assignment statements or expressions

Discussed Topics

range cmd -> slice cmd

• Technical note: Deprecate as soon as replacement is around
• check the integrations if possible and send PRs

PWD-per-drive-letter

• https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/win32/api/fileapi/nf-fileapi-getfullpathnamew -> windows sys call to expand relative paths takes per-drive working directory into account
• https://github.com/PowerShell/PowerShell/issues/17149 -> powershell doesn't set the system level working directory on cd so externals don't get the correct working directory for the non-current drive letter.
• Poll the community

FilePermission

• File permissions and file modes should not be their own primitive type (Value cases are mostly settled at this point).
• Look into custom types as a follow up to allow custom behavior, display, etc. (Lua metatables as possible inspiration).

aliasing modules and other symbols

• you can alias module members through reexport (h/t sid-6581)
• doesn't cover all cases like plugins or general subcommand renaming
• let's keep the issue open