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Deprecate Homebrew tap in favor of Homebrew Core and signed .pkgs#1347
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This tap is broken and unmaintained, and PowerShell is now available directly from Homebrew Core (`brew install powershell`), so there's no reason to keep pointing people here. - Add a prominent deprecation warning at the top of the README - Document the recommended install paths: the community Homebrew Core formula (copied from the updated docs Sean linked) and the macOS `.pkg` installers, which are signed and notarized by Microsoft as of the May 2026 releases and are therefore a fully supported path - Remove the old `powershell/tap/*` install instructions since those formulas no longer work Closes #1342. Drafted by Copilot (Claude Opus 4.8). Co-authored-by: Copilot <223556219+Copilot@users.noreply.github.com>
Reorder the recommended installation methods so the official, signed and notarized `.pkg` installers published by the PowerShell project come first, ahead of the community Homebrew Core formula. The `.pkg` packages are Microsoft-built and supported, so they're the better default recommendation, with Homebrew (which builds from source and is community-supported) as the alternative. Drafted by Copilot (Claude Opus 4.8). Co-authored-by: Copilot <223556219+Copilot@users.noreply.github.com>
- Link references to the PowerShell project to its repository at https://github.com/PowerShell/PowerShell - Remove the Gatekeeper workaround mentions, since the signed and notarized `.pkg` packages no longer require bypassing Gatekeeper and we don't want to document the old workarounds here Drafted by Copilot (Claude Opus 4.8). Co-authored-by: Copilot <223556219+Copilot@users.noreply.github.com>
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* Deprecate tap formulas now that PowerShell is in Homebrew Core PowerShell is now published to Homebrew Core as the community-maintained `powershell` formula (Homebrew/homebrew-core#268901), so the Homebrew project itself maintains a formula in our place. We were subsumed, but in a good way: there's no reason to keep pointing people at this broken, unmaintained tap. Add `deprecate!` to the three still-active formulas so anyone installing via `powershell/tap/*` gets a warning steering them to `brew install powershell`: - `powershell`, `powershell-lts`, and `powershell-preview` get `deprecate! date: "2026-06-18", because: "is now maintained by Homebrew Core as the `powershell` formula"` - `powershell-daily` is left alone since it's already `disable!`d, which supersedes `deprecate!` I chose `deprecate!` over `disable!` so `brew install` still works (just warns) and the install-and-test CI keeps passing. The custom `because:` string satisfies Homebrew's `DeprecateDisableReason` cop (no leading `it`, no trailing punctuation) and is verified with `brew style`. Follow-up to #1347, which added the README deprecation notice. Drafted by Copilot (Claude Opus 4.8). Co-authored-by: Copilot <223556219+Copilot@users.noreply.github.com> * Remove formula CI workflows ahead of archiving the tap The `powershell`, `powershell-lts`, and `powershell-preview` install/test jobs were already failing: the formulas no longer build now that `depends_on macos: :high_sierra` is disabled upstream (#1322, #1339, #1341), and we just deprecated them in favor of Homebrew Core. There's nothing left worth testing or auto-updating before the repo is archived, so drop the formula CI rather than chase green checks. - Delete the `PR-powershell{,-lts,-preview}.yml` pull-request workflows - Delete the `cron-powershell{,-preview}.yml` auto-update workflows - Delete the `composite/{prep,installAndTest,createPR}` actions they used `scorecard.yml` is left in place since it's unrelated to formula CI and still passes. Drafted by Copilot (Claude Opus 4.8). Co-authored-by: Copilot <223556219+Copilot@users.noreply.github.com> * Reword LTS and preview deprecation to not imply a Core replacement Homebrew Core publishes only the stable `powershell` formula; it has no LTS or preview equivalent. The previous `because:` text claimed these formulas are "now maintained by Homebrew Core as the `powershell` formula," which misleads `powershell-lts` and `powershell-preview` users into expecting a matching Core formula that does not exist. State instead that the tap is unmaintained now that PowerShell ships in Core, and direct users in the comment to the stable formula or an official PowerShell package. The stable `powershell.rb` wording is accurate and is left unchanged. Co-authored-by: Copilot <223556219+Copilot@users.noreply.github.com> --------- Co-authored-by: Copilot <223556219+Copilot@users.noreply.github.com>
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This tap is broken and unmaintained, and PowerShell is now available directly from Homebrew Core (
brew install powershell), so there's no reason to keep pointing people here..pkginstallers, which are signed and notarized by Microsoft as of the May 2026 releases and are therefore a fully supported macOS pathpowershell/tap/*install instructions since those formulas no longer workCloses #1342.