Publish to the VS Code marketplace

[thegecko]

This doesn't seem to have been published to the main VS Code marketplace, any reason why it shouldn't be?

[spoenemann]

See also #40

[jreineckearm]

@jonahgraham , there is some interest on our side to get this published to the VS Code marketplace as a CDT Cloud extension.
And to update the README with user focused contents. Like explaining the possible launch configuration items.

We would be happy to pick this up. Any objections or thoughts on this?

[jonahgraham]

No objection - quite the opposite.

As mentioned in the last cdt cloud call, the build infra here is quite sorely out of date, this is what I summarized at the call, but I don't know when I will have time to do this:

This highlighted that the extension (cdt-gdb-vscode) is quite dated in technology and has failed to publish recently. I (Jonah) am considering doing a whole-scale update, which will mean another major version bump to highlight that change.

[thegecko]

I'm hoping it should be quite easy to copy the CI from one of our other extensions.

[jreineckearm]

Great, thanks, @jonahgraham and @thegecko !

I'm hoping it should be quite easy to copy the CI from one of our other extensions.

Yes, my intention is to start from existing extensions like the "Inspector" extensions. Unless you have something else in mind. We can then discuss on the PR if this is sufficient or should be further refined/provide more functionality.

I might just need some assistance with setting up secrets as I certainly don't have the required rights to do so myself.

Also happy to have a look at dependencies (I see dependabot was busy here already). But probably as a separate PR. And would need some support from others to test their use cases.

[jonahgraham]

Yes, my intention is to start from existing extensions like the "Inspector" extensions. Unless you have something else in mind. We can then discuss on the PR if this is sufficient or should be further refined/provide more functionality.

Sounds good to me. I have nothing else in mind.

I might just need some assistance with setting up secrets as I certainly don't have the required rights to do so myself.

I am hoping @thegecko can handle this part, but lmk if you need me for any of it.

[thegecko]

We have org wide secrets set up for publishing all extensions, copying another CI workflow should 'just work'.

[jreineckearm]

We have org wide secrets set up for publishing all extensions, copying another CI workflow should 'just work'.

Nice!

[thegecko]

Should be closed in #130

[jreineckearm]

The good news is that the CI Github action started kicking after merging #130 . So, we can test this now properly on branches.
The bad news is that the latest vsce version doesn't like node 14 but requires version 20. I'll see how far I get with bumping the node version. If things fall apart with that node update we need to worst case roll back to https://github.com/microsoft/vscode-vsce/releases/tag/v2.15.0 which is the last version with node 14 support.