Merge pull request #1526 from Smeds/patch-3

create provided output_directory if it doesn't exist

Author: mvdbeek

planemo/galaxy/activity.py

@@ -459,7 +459,10 @@ def collect_outputs(
         # TODO: rather than creating a directory just use
         # Galaxy paths if they are available in this
         # configuration.
-        output_directory = output_directory or tempfile.mkdtemp()
+        if output_directory:
+            os.makedirs(output_directory, exist_ok=True)
+        else:
+            output_directory = tempfile.mkdtemp()
 
         self._ctx.log("collecting outputs to directory %s" % output_directory)