The user-observed ordering discrepancy decomposed into two edition
divergences, both now handled:
- launch paths run DIFFERENT powershells: the .ps1 twin executes under
the invoking shell (pwsh 7) while the .cmd routes via the wrap-pinned
'cmd.exe /c powershell' (Windows PowerShell 5);
- between those editions BOTH Hashtable key enumeration order AND
culture-sensitive Sort-Object collation differ (NLS vs ICU treat
hyphens differently). Fix: ordinal comparison for every name ordering
(candidates, platforms dirs, list -remote local+remote-only rows) in
ps1, LC_ALL=C glob/ls/sort in bash - verified byte-identical
list -remote output across cmd->powershell5, pwsh7-on-twin, and bash.
bin/AGENTS.md .ps1-twin paragraph corrected (was stale): the twin is
SELF-MATERIALIZED by the polyglot's batch layer - created when missing,
fc-compared and re-copied when content differs - so it self-heals after
a re-wrap on the next .cmd launch; no manual copy step (verified:
deleted twin regenerated byte-identical). Documented caveats: a
direct-.ps1-only user can ride a stale twin until a .cmd launch heals
it, and payload code must avoid edition-specific behaviour. Rewrapped;
roundtrip pin PASS; layout copy refreshed (twin deliberately NOT
hand-copied - the mechanism owns it now). Project 0.18.7.
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Julian Noble
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