VSCodium support & availability on open-vsx

[stashymane]

VSCodium is a fork of the open source part of VSCode, mainly focusing on removing telemetry & proprietary code, which in turn prevents it from using Microsoft's extension marketplace. Is it possbile to make this extension compatible with vscodium and available on open-vsx (its extension marketplace)?

[jonhermansen]

Not sure if this helpful, because it requires running VS Code first, but it is possible to get the extensions loaded into VS Codium.

cp -R ~/.vscode/extensions/* ~/.vscode-oss/extensions

I copied the following extensions into Codium and they seem to be loading:

• ms-dotnettools.csharp-1.23.11
• ms-vscode.mono-debug-0.16.2
• neikeq.godot-csharp-vscode-0.1.3

[neikeq]

ms-dotnettools.csharp license only allows its use in VSCode. An open alternative is muhammad-sammy.csharp. But I don't think we actually depend on this extension (need to confirm), so maybe we should remove it.

[neikeq]

We only depend on ms-vscode.mono-debug because we re-use some of their settings, so with some changes the dependency could be removed.

[geekley]

Yes, please remove the dependency, so we can at least install the .vsix file manually for now.

[copygirl]

I already have the muhammad-sammy.csharp and ms-vscode.mono-debug (installed via .vsix) extensions. I downloaded the .vsix for this extension, edited the package.json and removed the dependency on ms-dotnettools.csharp, and installed it. This appears to work for me.

(I would however appreciate a release on open-vsx.)

[raulsntos]

Seems like this would be resolved by https://github.com/open-vsx/publish-extensions/pull/565

[manuth]

Seems like this would be resolved by open-vsx/publish-extensions#565

I'm affraid I have to do a little a fixup as I forgot to edit this extension's metadata.

Although, having this extension published to open-vsx through the open-vsx/publish-extensions should be considered a workaround.

Thanks a ton for this great work 😄

[manuth]

@stashymane, @copygirl, @raulsntos Just for you guys to know - the neikeq.godot-csharp-vscode is published to open-vsx automatically as of now! However, I'd recommend to leave this issue open as it's recommended to publish extensions using the ovsx CLI (see https://www.npmjs.com/package/ovsx) rather than using the open-vsx/publish-extensions procedure, as that project is actually meant to be used for publishing abandoned extensions.

Thanks for your patience!

@neikeq in order to be able to publish neikeq.godot-csharp-vscode to OpenVSX, I dropped both the ms-vscode.mono-debug- and the ms-dotnettools.csharp-dependencies and instead added muhammad-sammy.csharp as a dependency.

I tried to run a project, set some debug break points and attach to a running editor. So I consider the extension I published to OpenVSX as a valid workaround for now.