PS: Extract source files found via PSModulePath#132
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PowerShell has a peculiar feature of "implicit module imports".
From https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/powershell/scripting/developer/module/importing-a-powershell-module?view=powershell-7.4#implicitly-importing-a-module-powershell-30:
So when we see an invocation such as:
this may refer to a command defined in a file totally outside the source directory, and will be implicitly loaded into the current Powershell session.
To handle such scenarios this PR does several things:
PSModulePathenvironment variable. This can be disabled via a command-line argument to the extractor, but is enabled by default..psd1to the list of file extensions to extract, which are module manifest files. These module manifest files contain the information necessary to detect this "implicit loading"PSModulePathenvironment variable.