Why re-invent the wheel?

[ArjixWasTaken]

There has been an excellent project named gsudo and it has an alias for sudo as well.
It works just the way one would expect it to, and it has existed since 2019 (~5 years as of writing).

It is available on winget, scoop and chocolatey.
I'd assume it would make more sense to either sponsor that guy or to fork their project.
Why are you making your own from scratch?

Sudo is available for Windows 11 builds 26045 and later. If you're on an Insiders build with sudo, you can enable it in the Windows Settings app, on the "Developer Features" page.

Are you planning to have your version of sudo enabled by default once it is mature?
Would it conflict with gsudo?

Update: It does indeed conflict, even when disabled...
Solution: Edit your system environment for PATH to have the gsudo directory before C:\Windows\System32

[mwallner]

Déjà-vu ... it feels like another 🗿 "oh we need to have this up in our toolbelt - let's create it"
=> and 100% forget about server-OS and LTS releases. :slowclap:

[Enivex]

They specifically mention gsudo in their blog post https://devblogs.microsoft.com/commandline/introducing-sudo-for-windows/

[ArjixWasTaken]

Thanks for the link!
Although upon reading it, they merely say that if microsoft's sudo is lacking, they recommend using gsudo...

Which makes me further question their actions.

[NamelessGO]

Comparison between gsudo and Microsoft sudo

https://gerardog.github.io/gsudo/docs/gsudo-vs-sudo

[mwallner]

I didn't realize MSFT's sudo doesn't even return the exit code of the command called... that's a BIG red flag for me! (guess that'll be fixed soon though if they want people to actually being able to use it)

[zadjii-msft]

doesn't even return the exit code of the command called

It sure should! Seems like that regressed at some point before 0.1.5 went out to Insiders, then got re-fixed (since I can't repro that on my main branch anymore).

Needless to say, I suspect that'll be fixed in the next version of sudo that lands in Insiders (in ~2-3 weeks). I'll make a note in #4

[ivorybishop]

If you are going to reinvent the wheel, why not make it work with all the other wheels out there?

It's not that hard to make it so that everyone adopting your tool doesn't have to modify scripts to make it work.