Windows Support

[azinsharaf]

Hi, Is there any plan to add Windows support for this repo?

Thanks, Azin

[makovich]

Have a good day, Azin!

There have to be two things addressed to make it possible. skim for now have no Windows support and kp as you can see in its core uses this library heavily. Another one is an API that Windows provide to manage secrets internally (like keyring in Linux or Keychain in macOS). Last time I looked at Windows, there were no common API. It was too much ago and things may have been changed.

However, since there is WLS, it should work probably, but I don't have any chance to test it out. Key[ring|chain] only needed if you do not want to enter your password multiple times and so delegate auth to your OS.

If you looking for a way of using kp as a tool in your automation *.bat/*.ps scripts than it would be really good to add some kind of Windows support. Do you know any consistent APIs for secrets handling there on Windows?

[azinsharaf]

Thanks @makovich. I test it in WSL in the near future.

[azinsharaf]

@makovich i am using it on WSL now. I may ask my questions in separate Issues.