.vscode: Add launch settings for VS Code

[pcercuei]

With this, it is now possible to launch Pioneer directly from VS Code on Windows by simply pressing F5.

Signed-off-by: Paul Cercueil [email protected]

[sturnclaw]

I like this idea on the surface, but I'm very hesitant to merge it if there's a possibility it will cause issues or confusion for other contributors. For example, I use VScode as well and have a decent amount of settings related to my personal workflow in the VScode config files; tracking these files in source control has the potential to turn into a constant stream of overwrite commits when submitting otherwise unrelated work.

I'd much prefer a setup script that creates the initial VScode files for a specific platform and leave these files untracked; I think this would be much more flexible and allow developers to tailor their launch options etc. to their liking without having to constantly preserve them from being overwritten.

[impaktor]

If we don't want it in master, it could be offered as a downloadable on the wiki under development section, or somewhere else?

[pcercuei]

@Web-eWorks well, if your local launch.json rules are useful, why not add them here? Having several launch options is better than having none.

[impaktor]

So in summary: Either we close (and potentially add note to dev docs), or add more useful stuff for pioneer dev in launch.json. It's up to @Web-eWorks . I see the point in not wanting local launch.json clobbered (Does VSCode support mulitple launch.json files?).

[sturnclaw]

I consider this PR to be superseded with the merge of #5626. VSCode implicitly merges launch definition lists from the .code-workspace file as well as launch.json, but defaults to creating new configurations in the latter. That makes the launch.json file a better fit to be excluded from source control as it's for user-specific configurations which we do not want to be checking into source control.

If @pcercuei can determine the above configurations are still relevant with the changes to CMake management in VSCode, I'd welcome a PR to add them to the launch section of the optional pioneer-default.code-workspace file we now provide as a "quickstart" method for VSCode users. The quickstart method is fully documented in COMPILING.txt - you're welcome to copy / document in the dev docs as well.