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Walkthrough recommends `-UseMSI` but I'm on a mac that can't install things via MSIs

Open TylerLeonhardt opened this issue 3 years ago • 1 comments

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Summary

I was looking at the new Walkthrough and noticed that I got some text that says to use the -UseMSI switch that I can't use on my platform.

PowerShell Version

Name                           Value
----                           -----
PSVersion                      7.2.5
PSEdition                      Core
GitCommitId                    7.2.5
OS                             Darwin 21.6.0 Darwin Kernel Version 21.6.0: Sat Jun 18 17:05:47 PDT 2022; root:xnu-8020.140.41~1/RELEASE_ARM64_T8101
Platform                       Unix
PSCompatibleVersions           {1.0, 2.0, 3.0, 4.0…}
PSRemotingProtocolVersion      2.3
SerializationVersion           1.1.0.1
WSManStackVersion              3.0

Visual Studio Code Version

code-insiders --version    
1.71.0-insider
28f604dec81b609dd7e69362585f7a99d4c48f88
arm64

Extension Version

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Steps to Reproduce

Open the Walkthrough on macOS

Visuals

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TylerLeonhardt avatar Aug 20 '22 03:08 TylerLeonhardt

@TylerLeonhardt I know, we just wanted to get the intern project out. I'm going to replace that step with OS-specific ones using when (or would welcome a PR from you to do so).

andyleejordan avatar Aug 20 '22 16:08 andyleejordan