Summary of the new feature / enhancement
Discussion in WG is to keep the config doc processed by DSC engine more declarative and less imperative which includes loops. As such, we do plan to have tooling in the future to define things like loops and conditionals easily as a higher level tool/language that would unroll any loops so they are statically defined in the doc.
To prevent breaking some known users who are relying on copy currently, we plan to keep this capability in 3.x, but mark it as deprecated which plan to remove in the future once we have the other tooling in place.
Proposed technical implementation details (optional)
Add message that copy is deprecated so users know this will eventually be removed
Summary of the new feature / enhancement
Discussion in WG is to keep the config doc processed by DSC engine more declarative and less imperative which includes loops. As such, we do plan to have tooling in the future to define things like loops and conditionals easily as a higher level tool/language that would unroll any loops so they are statically defined in the doc.
To prevent breaking some known users who are relying on
copycurrently, we plan to keep this capability in 3.x, but mark it as deprecated which plan to remove in the future once we have the other tooling in place.Proposed technical implementation details (optional)
Add message that
copyis deprecated so users know this will eventually be removed