Chapter 10. Module manifests and metadata

10.1 Module folder structure
10.2 Module manifest structure
10.3 Production manifest elements
10.4 Construction manifest elements
10.5 Content manifest elements
10.6 Language restrictions in a manifest
10.7 Advanced module operations
10.8 Summary

The world is my world: this is manifest in the fact that the limits of language (of that language which alone I understand) mean the limits of my world.

Ludwig Wittgenstein, Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus

In chapter 9, we introduced PowerShell modules and covered the basics needed for using and writing modules. That chapter focused on simple ad hoc modules and ignored details like module descriptions and versioning. But it’s these details that make ...

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