Manifest

Avoid Using Deprecated Manifest Fields

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Ensure Manifest Contains Correct Fields

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Do not use NestedModules to export shared commands

Since we don’t use the RootModule key in the module manifest, we should not use the NestedModules key to add modules that export commands that are shared between resource modules.

Normally, a single list in the RootModule key, can restrict what is exported using the cmdlet Export-ModuleMember. Since we don’t use the RootModule key we can’t restrict what is exported, so every nested module will export all the commands (or all the commands restricted by Export-ModuleMember in that individual nested module). If two resource modules were to use the NestedModules method, it would result in one of them being unable to install since they have conflicting exported commands.

Updated on 28 Jan 2019