Upgrade Development Tools to Latest Visual Studio 2022 Community Edition.

[DLLarson]

This is something we should be considering.

-Dale

[wsu-cb]

Dale,
I tried to push a branch with a change to .github/workflows/main.yml to use VS2022, but github says I don't have workflow scope. Should I remove the commit to main.yml, and push the rest of the changes, or should I have permission to edit main.yml? For what it's worth, I have never studied github workflows, so it's entirely possible that my change has not been made correctly.

[DLLarson]

github says I don't have workflow scope. Should I remove the commit to main.yml, and push the rest of the changes, or should I have permission to edit main.yml? .... For what it's worth, I have never studied github workflows, so it's entirely possible that my change has not been made correctly.

Let me see if I can figure out what's wrong. I don't think it has anything to do with the main.yml file but rather access rights. But I'm not totally sure. I haven't really studied the workflow stuff either. I usually borrow from other repo's that seem similar.

[DLLarson]

Could you post the exact message you're getting? Plus attach your changed main.yml file to your response so I can see if I get the same message. I see a lot of advice about access tokens but those seem to be related to Github api calls. We're just using standard git and SSH and I don't have any special "token's" defined in my account that I can locate.

[wsu-cb]

$ git push --set-upstream origin vs2022
Enumerating objects: 74, done.
Counting objects: 100% (74/74), done.
Delta compression using up to 4 threads
Compressing objects: 100% (41/41), done.
Writing objects: 100% (43/43), 5.84 KiB | 498.00 KiB/s, done.
Total 43 (delta 37), reused 0 (delta 0)
remote: Resolving deltas: 100% (37/37), completed with 29 local objects.
To https://github.com/wsu-cb/cbwindows.git
 ! [remote rejected] vs2022 -> vs2022 (refusing to allow a Personal Access Token to create or update workflow `.github/workflows/main.yml` without `workflow` scope)
error: failed to push some refs to 'https://github.com/wsu-cb/cbwindows.git'

main.yml.zip

[DLLarson]

I'm stumped. I can add your file to my fork of cbwindows and it accepts it without issue. I check the so called repos settings that would affect this and all looks fine:

https://docs.github.com/en/actions/managing-workflow-runs/approving-workflow-runs-from-public-forks

It looks like you're using SSH access (and not token access) just like I am so it should work.

I did find a note to a person saying perhaps they forked the repository before workflow stuff was added and that they should do a new fork of the repository. Could you try that and see what happens?

-Dale

[wsu-cb]

It looks like you're using SSH access (and not token access) just like I am so it should work.

Actually, I am using personal token, and, indeed, when I looked at it, it did not have workflow enabled.

I did find a note to a person saying perhaps they forked the repository before workflow stuff was added and that they should do a new fork of the repository. Could you try that and see what happens?

Before realizing my personal token needed to be upgraded, I actually tried this, and instead wound up creating another fork owned by CyberBoardPBEM (which I deleted). The GUI appears to be saying that I have already forked cbwindows, and so can no longer do so. I am unwilling to either create another account or delete my current fork in order to perform more experiments, but since I have pushed the workflow now, it doesn't matter. Thank you for the looking into this.

[DLLarson]

The GUI appears to be saying that I have already forked cbwindows, and so can no longer do so.

Yeah. You would have to rename the existing one to try forking another copy as an experiment.

Anyhoo... Since you found the token thing it sounds like all is well.

Regarding your personal token, I'm curious... Is that something you added at some point or was it automatically created as a consequence of some other operation? (I don't see any in my account.) Follow-up question, if you created one what motivated you doing that?

-Dale

[wsu-cb]

Regarding your personal token, I'm curious... Is that something you added at some point or was it automatically created as a consequence of some other operation? (I don't see any in my account.) Follow-up question, if you created one what motivated you doing that?

If I remember correctly, when you opened the github repo, github allowed plain old username/password pairs. However, a while ago, github removed password access to repos, and their end-of-password notice talked about access tokens as the replacement.

[DLLarson]

Ahhhh... Makes sense.

I think I'll stick with good 'ole PK certificates for authentication...unless they're gunning for those too.

-Dale

[DLLarson]

Is this issue ready to be considered resolved? (well after updating the README.txt that is.)

-Dale

[wsu-cb]

Is this issue ready to be considered resolved? (well after updating the README.txt that is.)

-Dale

It looks like CB has README.md, but otherwise I agree.

[DLLarson]

It looks like CB has README.md, but otherwise I agree.

My mistake. I typed that .txt from memory and blew it. :)

-Dale