New Issue: [Bug]: 'mason init/new --light' does not work properly

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28223, "jabraham17", "[Bug]: 'mason init/new --light' does not work properly", "2025-12-16T22:01:35Z"

I found the following error cases with mason init --light and mason new --light

  1. Should have gotten an error message about a missing package name
$ mason new --light
uncaught FileNotFoundError: No such file or directory (mkdir called with illegal path: '')
  MasonUtils.chpl:788: thrown here
  MasonNew.chpl:73: uncaught here
  1. mason init --light should just work
$ mason init --light
uncaught FileExistsError: File exists (in mkdir with path "/Users/jade/foo")
  MasonUtils.chpl:788: thrown here
  MasonInit.chpl:73: uncaught here
  1. mason init --light foo should just work
$ mason init --light foo
Directory does not exist: foo Did you mean 'mason new' to create a new project from scratch?

mason init foo also seems to not work well. It gets the same error. I don't think any input to mason init is valid, so it may just be we need to remove that