DSC resources in dedicated folder not in DSCROOT

[Michal Machniak (mimachniak)]

Hi Steve Lee (@SteveL-MSFT) , Mikey Lombardi (He/Him) (@michaeltlombardi)

Lookig that number of resources is incressing I open suggestion to add adtional folder like for adapter for default resources in dedicated folder, so structure will looks like this

DSC Root
-- adapter
-- dsc_resources
--- dsc resources folder (GPLink)
---- *.project
---- *.resource

• core files

If is posible to add wildcard discovery resources in sub folders when we type dsc resource list

[Mikey Lombardi (He/Him) (michaeltlombardi)]

Michal Machniak (@mimachniak) - checking my understanding, you're proposing:

1. An update to the file structure for a DSC installation
2. Such that we would place every built-in resource (manifest and accompanying files, if any) in a dsc_resources (or similar) folder instead of colocated with the dsc executable

Can you help me understand the reasoning and benefit?

I'm not opposed to a more hierarchical folder structure, but it'll require some careful planning since the discovery implementation looks by directory, not in child directories.

If we are going to move resources into a folder we would probably need to think about putting extensions in their own folder and so on.