Improve experience for side-by-side versions of PowerShell
See original GitHub issueWe can setup multiple PowerShell Core versions on a system side-by-side (on Windows side-by-side with Windows PowerShell).
What about to enhance -Version to get better UX?
powershell -Version 5.1
powershell -Version 6.0.0
powershell -Version 6.0.0-Beta.4
powershell -Version UserDefault
powershell -Version SystemDefault
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- Created 6 years ago
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- Comments:15 (9 by maintainers)
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@KirkMunro It is not easy for me to write large text (but a high quality) on non-native language. Feel free to pull the RFC. Many thanks!
(It seems I keep a branch with the enumerating version prototype since then #4836 😃 It was ported from VS Code(!) )
We would also need
set-powershellandget-powershellcmdlets to set the default and enumerate installed versions. This should probably end up being an RFC.cc @joeyaiello