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PowerShell ships ThreadJob not Microsoft.PowerShell.ThreadJob

See original GitHub issue

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Steps to reproduce

Why does PowerShell ship ThreadJob and not Microsoft.PowerShell.ThreadJob? The former hasn’t been updated since 2019 while the latter has been updated in 2021.

cc: @PaulHigin

Expected behavior

Get-Module ThreadJob -ListAvailable

    Directory: C:\program files\powershell\7-preview\Modules

ModuleType Version    PreRelease Name                                PSEdition ExportedCommands
---------- -------    ---------- ----                                --------- ----------------
Binary     2.1.0                 Microsoft.PowerShell.ThreadJob      Desk      Start-ThreadJob

Actual behavior

Get-Module ThreadJob -ListAvailable

    Directory: C:\program files\powershell\7-preview\Modules

ModuleType Version    PreRelease Name                                PSEdition ExportedCommands
---------- -------    ---------- ----                                --------- ----------------
Binary     2.0.3                 ThreadJob                           Desk      Start-ThreadJob

Error details

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Environment data

7.4-preview3

Visuals

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Issue Analytics

State:
Created 4 months ago
Reactions:2
Comments:7 (3 by maintainers)

Top GitHub Comments

4reactions

ThomasNietocommented, Jun 5, 2023

This is the correct place for my issue as the configuration to ship ThreadJob in PowerShell is in this repository. You’ll want to move your ThreadJob specific questions to that repository.

2reactions

PaulHigincommented, Jun 14, 2023

Please see PR: https://github.com/PowerShell/ThreadJob/pull/29 for removing pdb file from ThreadJob release build.

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