Interested in finding platform-specific bugs in your software? Let a class of students who mostly use Windows (don't ask me why) try setting things up and running your tests. I promise you won't get through unscathed. Every project. Every time.
I think Powershell is a good assumption. Powershell w/ admin is worth pushing people to as a performance optimization (as baseline, copy files, but print a message telling people perf will be better with admin, and use symlinks in admin)
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I think it's safe to ask people to download git (MSVC installers provide it, last I checked). Support chocolatey if you can.
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Microsoft's OSS projects like
@code and@typescriptlang are great places to look for best practices. The devs who work on those projects are super-friendly and will help you out. -
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SSH comes with the very latest Windows (https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2017/12/microsoft-quietly-snuck-an-ssh-client-and-server-into-the-latest-windows-10/ …) but I'd only depend on the user installing ssh if you want the user to use ssh directly. Otherwise, libssh is better.
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Even for git, cargo uses libgit2 so that users who aren't trying to use Git directly can still get the Cargo registry and get bleeding-edge packages from github. I think this is a good practice.
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