Visual Studio Code opensource

Why?

Pristine VSCode OSS build, result of 'systems primitivism' R&D - 'as much benefits from as simple toolbox as possible'

How ?

Linux with docker & docker-compose, user with UID/GID 10001, a member of docker group, enough disk space in ${HOME} (Drive C: in Windows) to store source and build files

Windows host

Both Linux and Windows expect a .github_token file in ${HOME} for archive upload

Linux Swapfile (1.98.0 on)

sudo mkswap -U clear --size 16G --file /swapfile

Put /swapfile none swap defaults 0 0 to /etc/fstab

Linux with Docker

In .env adjust DISTRO variable to any of {debian,fedora}

mkdir -p ${HOME}/vscode-buildbed

DISTRO=debian DUMMY_UID=`id -u` DUMMY_GID=`id -g` docker-compose run --build --rm vscode

or

DISTRO=fedora DUMMY_UID=`id -u` DUMMY_GID=`id -g` docker-compose run --build --rm vscode

Windows or docker-free Linux

Git Bash

./entrypoint.sh

Installation & setup tweaks

Untar, copy-paste an extensionsGallery to resources/app/product.json

Limitations

netcoredbg as vsdbg is only available in Microsoft Visual Studio Code

Pyright as OSS replacement for Pylance

License

Perl "Artistic License"