Pre/Post tasks

[adepretis]

Is there a way to have pre- and post-generation tasks like e.g. Cookiecutter has with it's hooks. Currently it seems those Copier tasks are only post-generation tasks.

My use case:

• generate Laravel (insert Framework X) boilerplate using a pre-generation tasks/hooks, like
  • composer create-project --prefer-dist laravel/laravel myapp or
  • curl -s "https://laravel.build/example-app" | bash
• overwrite some generated files with Copier template files or inject new files into the resulting directory structure
• run post-generation tasks/hooks for cleanup

With the current tasks implementation I don't see a way to do this.

Any ideas?

[pawamoy]

Tasks need some love. See discussion in #240.