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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@TravisEz13 we can archive this repo after mering this. |
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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.