Re: Official devcontainer config

On Sat, Aug 3, 2024 at 7:30 PM Andrew Dunstan <andrew(at)dunslane(dot)net> wrote:
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> On 2024-08-02 Fr 2:45 PM, Peter Eisentraut wrote:
> > On 01.08.24 23:38, Andrew Dunstan wrote:
> >> Not totally opposed, and I will probably give it a try very soon, but
> >> I'm wondering if this really needs to go in the core repo. We've
> >> generally shied away from doing much in the way of editor / devenv
> >> support, trying to be fairly agnostic. It's true we carry
> >> .dir-locals.el and .editorconfig, so that's not entirely true, but
> >> those are really just about supporting our indentation etc. standards.
> >
> > Yeah, the editor support in the tree ought to be minimal and factual,
> > based on coding standards and widely recognized best practices, not a
> > collection of one person's favorite aliases and scripts. If the
> > scripts are good, let's look at them and maybe put them under
> > src/tools/ for everyone to use. But a lot of this looks like it will
> > requite active maintenance if output formats or node formats or build
> > targets etc. change. And other things require specific local paths.
> > That's fine for a local script or something, but not for a mainline
> > tool that the community will need to maintain.
> >
> > I suggest to start with a very minimal configuration. What are the
> > settings that absolute everyone will need, maybe to set indentation
> > style or something.
> >
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> I believe you can get VS Code to support editorconfig, so from that POV
> maybe we don't need to do anything.
>
> I did try yesterday with the code from the OP's patch symlinked into my
> repo, but got an error with the Docker build, which kinda reinforces
> your point.

The reason symlink does not work is that configure_vscode needs to copy
launch.json and tasks.json into .vscode, it has to be in the
WORKDIR/.devcontainer.

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> Your point about "one person's preferences" is well taken - some of the
> git aliases supplied clash with mine.
>

Yeah, I will remove that.

>
> cheers
>
>
> andrew
>
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