Issues in the Design Draft about plaster HOT 7 CLOSED

That's wasn't the intended usage but hey, if it works... :-)

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That is a bad example for choice input. The better example is in Examples\NewModuleTemplate\plasterManifest.xml.

WRT to destination path, Invoke-Plaster will create the destination path if it doesn't exist. Ditto for file destination - if the parent folder(s) don't exist "within" the destination dir, they will be created.

What we are currently missing is a way to create an empty folder. Not that Git would allow you to commit that. #THINGSIDONTLIKEABOUTGIT :-)

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I was able to create empty folders like this

<file source='Toolkit\Files\'
        destination='Toolkit\Files\'/>
<file source='Toolkit\SupportFiles\'
        destination='Toolkit\SupportFiles\'/>

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lol

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I take it back, it looks like it is not making the empty directories now. Is this eventually planned?

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I updated the example in the DesignNotes.md document to reflect the current state of choice and multichoice functionality.

As for creating an empty directory, yes, I would like to support that. It should be easy enough to add. Just wondering though if a <directory destination="Toolkit\SupportFiles"/> directive would lead template authors to believe they have to do that for every subdir when <file .../> will create subdirs as long as their is a file go into them.

I wonder if it would be too weird if we supported this syntax:

<file source='' destination='Toolkit\Files\'/>

Oh wait a tic. That works (unintentionally) now! Is that sufficient long term?

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I have been thinking this one over. I think this works as a short term solution if documented, but long term I feel this might be confusing. It would be ideal if someone can just quickly look at a manifest and understand how it works, and adding quirks like that kind of go against the way you would think directories should work.

I feel Plaster should try to stay as inviting and user friendly as possible. I am going to guess that a very large number of users who start using this have never used a generator like this before.

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