Re: [RFC PATCH v2 1/1] devtools: add vscode configuration generator

[Bruce Richardson <bruce.richardson@intel.com>]

On Mon, Jul 29, 2024 at 02:05:52PM +0100, Anatoly Burakov wrote:
> A lot of developers use Visual Studio Code as their primary IDE. This
> script generates a configuration file for VSCode that sets up basic build
> tasks, launch tasks, as well as C/C++ code analysis settings that will
> take into account compile_commands.json that is automatically generated
> by meson.
> 
> Files generated by script:
>  - .vscode/settings.json: stores variables needed by other files
>  - .vscode/tasks.json: defines build tasks
>  - .vscode/launch.json: defines launch tasks
>  - .vscode/c_cpp_properties.json: defines code analysis settings
> 
> The script uses a combination of globbing and meson file parsing to
> discover available apps, examples, and drivers, and generates a
> project-wide settings file, so that the user can later switch between
> debug/release/etc. configurations while keeping their desired apps,
> examples, and drivers, built by meson, and ensuring launch configurations
> still work correctly whatever the configuration selected.
> 
> This script uses whiptail as TUI, which is expected to be universally
> available as it is shipped by default on most major distributions.
> However, the script is also designed to be scriptable and can be run
> without user interaction, and have its configuration supplied from
> command-line arguments.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Anatoly Burakov <anatoly.burakov@intel.com>
> ---
> 
Not sure where it would go - contributors guide probably - but I think this
script could do with some docs, especially a quick-setup example on how to
use. Having it in the docs will also make it more likely someone will use
this.

/Bruce