Publish to https://open-vsx.org/

[kaashyapan]

Is your feature request related to a problem? Please describe.
vscode is great and not a walled garden (but maybe a fenced garden ?)
I'd like to stay away from Microsoft as much as is possible considering I use FSharp.
Can we please also publish this extension to an open repo ?

Describe the solution you'd like
Publish this extension to https://open-vsx.org/ which is an open repository for vscode compatible IDEs like vscodium.

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[baronfel]

I certainly have no problems with publishing to other repositories. Do you have any pointers to documentation about how to push to that repository? Right now we publish as part of the CI pipeline, so if you could figure out how to push to it as part of a github action that would be ideal.

[kaashyapan]

This has a github action
https://github.com/HaaLeo/publish-vscode-extension#readme

The 'How-to' to publish an extension is in
https://github.com/eclipse/openvsx/wiki/Publishing-Extensions

Create an account -> setup namespace -> Get a token -> Setup the above github action

[Krzysztof-Cieslak]

Sounds good to me, I think GitPod integrates open-vsx marketplace too

[OmanF]

Another promising editor using open-vsx exclusively, due to legal issues, is oni2 (previously onivim).

Would be great having Ionide there too for all VSCode-compatible editors.

Thanks.

[olivercoad]

+1 to publishing to open-vsx, but just wondering how does https://github.com/ionide/playground work in Gitpod currently?

[nirvinm]

I would love to install Ionide from open-vsix.org. But how to handle C# extension dependency given that it is only licensed to run under Microsoft's VSCode build and they are never going to make it available on open-vsix?

[muhammadsammy]

I created a free fork <https://github.com/muhammadsammy/free-omnisharp-vscode> of the official C# extension that can be used as the C# dependency for Ionide on Open VSX <https://open-vsx.org/extension/muhammad-sammy/csharp>. I tried it for debugging a simple F# console and it worked fine.

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I would love to install Ionide from open-vsix.org. But how do we handle C# extension dependency on open-vsx given that C# extension is only licensed to run under Microsoft's VSCode build.

[nojaf]

Great, so what needs to be done now? A setting in Ionide?

[muhammadsammy]

I installed the vsix file then changed the C# extension ID from ms-dotnettools to muhammad-sammy

in:
$HOME/.vscode-oss/extensions/ionide.ionide-*/.vsixmanifest
and
$HOME/.vscode-oss/extensions/ionide.ionide-*/package.json

Maybe this could be accomplished with a GitHub Action that runs a script to change the C# dependency only for Ionide on OpenVSX, then releases it to OpenVSX.

[nojaf]

It looks indeed like changing

ionide-vscode-fsharp/release/package.json

Line 1568 in ab871e5

"ms-dotnettools.csharp"

to "muhammad-sammy.csharp".
I might be able to cook something up in the FAKE script.

At some point, one of the maintainers will need to do the registration thing at https://github.com/eclipse/openvsx/wiki/Publishing-Extensions#1-create-an-eclipse-account

[nojaf]

Instead of the entire csharp package, would using https://github.com/redhat-developer/netcoredbg-theia-plugin be an option?
It has the Samsung debugger as well and looks like a lightweight solution than the entire csharp extension.
@baronfel any ideas?

[kaashyapan]

Some updates from Onivim2 ...

The Ionide.Ionide-fsharp extension depends on ms-dotnettools.csharp, which isn't available on open-vsx

onivim/oni2@7929ea5