We now check for powershell/dsc compat in provider.jdmundrawala/issue-2027-master

The problem with raising an exception when the resource is created
was that it was not possible to have a chef recipe that installs
the correct version of powershell and then runs the dsc_script
resource.
See https://github.com/opscode/chef/issues/2027

1 files changed, 2 insertions, 16 deletions

diff --git a/lib/chef/resource/dsc_script.rb b/lib/chef/resource/dsc_script.rb
index 2972ace1aa..76ac6659d6 100644
--- a/lib/chef/resource/dsc_script.rb
+++ b/lib/chef/resource/dsc_script.rb
@@ -28,12 +28,8 @@ class Chef
         super
         @allowed_actions.push(:run)
         @action = :run
-        if(run_context && Chef::Platform.supports_dsc?(run_context.node))
-          @provider = Chef::Provider::DscScript
-        else
-          raise Chef::Exceptions::NoProviderAvailable,
-            "#{powershell_info_str(run_context)}\nPowershell 4.0 or higher was not detected on your system and is required to use the dsc_script resource."
-        end
+        @provider = Chef::Provider::DscScript
+        @resource_name = :dsc_script
       end
 
       def code(arg=nil)
@@ -125,16 +121,6 @@ class Chef
           :kind_of => [ Integer ]
         )
       end
-
-      private
-
-      def powershell_info_str(run_context)
-        if run_context && run_context.node[:languages] && run_context.node[:languages][:powershell]
-            install_info = "Powershell #{run_context.node[:languages][:powershell][:version]} was found on the system."
-          else
-            install_info = 'Powershell was not found.'
-          end
-      end
     end
   end
 end