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

[Burakov, Anatoly]

On 7/29/2024 3:14 PM, Bruce Richardson wrote:
> 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 at 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

Yep, this is the next step :) I've left it until v1 to add docs.

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Thanks,
Anatoly