mystery of manifest.json

Dear Devs, many thanks for this awesome tool-chain/system :folded_hands: (A)I could convert a script into quarto notebook and launch on posit-cloud using Rstudio without actually creating the manifest.json as per Create a manifest.json file for Connect Cloud – Posit Connect Cloud Documentation . Was struggling a lot last night when i tried to do the same with positron, so wondering how did Rstudio manage to deploy without this file but Positron couldn't even when the file https://raw.githubusercontent.com/animesh/vsn/refs/heads/devel/manifest.json existed? I am guessing it created correct version of the file somewhere, wondering if i can accesss and learn what previous file created by rsconnect::writeManifest() was missing?

If you are deploying from Positron , the Publisher extension will generate a manifest.json file under the hood based on what you have installed locally. You do not need to create it yourself. It is similar to deploying from RStudio, it will use rsconnect to create a manifest.json automatically.

Hopefully the log files in Connect Cloud will shed light on what was missing, but if you had a content id, I could take a look.

thanks
sam

Thanks Sam, i deleted the failed instance. Will try to deploy again and get back in case issue persists.

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