Am I a CTP junkie or a Beta junkie?

I’m finding myself wondering if I’m a beta junkie or a CTP junkie.

Why?

Because Jeffrey Snover announced that there will be a CTP release of PowerShell 2.0 next week. I’m not waiting for the beta either - I’m downloading the CTP bits as soon as the post announcing its release gets to Google Reader. Maybe I should change my “beta junkie” title to “pre-release junkie” or “I just like to install things junkie.”*

PowerShell 1.0 single handedly turned me into a console user. I do 90+% of my file operations from PowerShell instead of Windows Explorer. I also do a large portion of my pseudo coding at the command prompt to see whether a basic algorithm will work the way I expect it to. I’m very excited to see what the team has come up with.

Update (per post from Jeffrey Snover):

The PowerShell V2 CTP is not for everyone. You should read this PowerShell Team blog entry (http://blogs.msdn.com/powershell/archive/2007/11/02/ctp-watch-this-space.aspx) to find out what it is and what it isn’t and then make an informed decision before installing the CTP.

I may be an “I just like to install things junkie” but that doesn’t mean that you should be to. Be responsible with pre-release software. If you’ve got production code that relies on PowerShell behavior, etc. you should consider holding off on installing it on your development machine.

* With all these installs I do, I actually do see UAC prompts a lot. And no, I haven’t turned off the prompt.