Re: Official devcontainer config

On Sat, Aug 24, 2024 at 9:47 PM Peter Eisentraut <peter@eisentraut.org> wrote:
>
> On 24.08.24 14:49, Junwang Zhao wrote:
> > What I haven't addressed is that the repo still uses specific local
> > paths, I think
> > this is ok since the code is not going into the core.
>
> I'm not among the target users of this, but I imagine that that would
> significantly reduce the utility of this for everyone besides you?

Yeah, the reason why I started this thread is that we(at least Jelta and I)
think it may make some potential new contributors' lives easier.

>
> > One thing I want to ask is, is there any objection to adding the
> > .devcontainer and .vscode to the .gitignore file?
>
> The standing policy is that files related to IDEs and editors should not
> be in our .gitignore, but you can put them into your personal ignore
> file somewhere.

Sure, I can put them in global ignore file in various ways.

I just saw the policy in the comment, so I'm ok with it.

>
> > There are *.vcproj and pgsql.sln in .gitignore, so I guess it's ok to add
> > .devcontainer and .vscode?
>
> Those are files generated by the build process, so it is appropriate to
> have them there.  But in fact, they should have been removed now that
> the MSVC build system is done.
>

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Regards
Junwang Zhao