Publishing to the public vsx registry

[superrune]

Hi,

It would be fantastic if this extension could be published to the open VSX registry, making it accessible to VSCodium and the likes.

Some info here:
https://github.com/eclipse/openvsx/wiki/Publishing-Extensions

Cheers!

[markchagers]

This would be a great addition. I use vscodium for almost everything.
I tried installing the vscode extension in vscodium as per these instructions
But unfortunately this doesn't work for this extension. The Blender commands show up in the command palette as in vscode, however any attempt at executing one of the commands results in an error: command 'blender.start' not found as noted in issue #214.

[markchagers]

To answer my own issue: it turns out that blender_vscode depends on cpptools from Microsoft. This extension is also unavailable on the open VSX registry, so it won't be installed automatically in vscodium when you install blender_vscode as described above.
Simply download the correct vsix file for your platform from the link above and install it with this command:
codium --install-extension 'xxxxx.vsix'. That makes the blender_vscode work in vscodium.

[Mateusz-Grzelinski]

the cpp tools are needed only for commands that build blender from source code and they are undcumented. if you want to do addon develoment you do not need cpp tools

[sboddy]

Marketplace has (last few days) removed the ability to download the .vsix files. I don't see a .vsix anywhere here on the github pages either. Could we either get it added here, or added to the open registry.
(Like @markchagers I was forced to install the cpptools or this one didn't work. It would be real nice to get rid of that need, as licensing prohibits using cpptools with VSCodium.)
[Edit: Let me rephrase that... It would be nice to to make cpptools optional so the majority of the functionality is still available.]

[sboddy]

I created a personal fork here: https://github.com/sboddy/blender_vscode
I removed the cpp dependency (a single commit), and published a "release" with a .vsix that people can download. This works in VSCodium for me, and should probably work in VSCode and any other extension compatible alternatives.