Release hxcpp-debug-server as separate repository / library

[vshaxe]

Release hxcpp-debug-server as separate repository / library

[Gama11]

Not really, the current assumption is that things can't be out of sync. ;)

[Gama11]

The reason is simply so the lib and the extension can't get out of sync, and we don't have to worry about releasing them separately.

So Kha can't use Haxelibs at all? If so, couldn't you just add the <User>/.vscode/extensions/vshaxe.hxcpp-debugger-<version>/hxcpp-debug-server directory as a classpath?

[sh-dave]

It can use it, but i don't do it and have all my project dependencies versioned via submodules. But i'll just link this repo instead and manually include the extensions classpath and inject the required macro. (This would have been done automatically by khamake when you project.addLibrary() something, as it parses haxelib.json and extraParams.hxml.)

[Gama11]

I think having it as a submodule wouldn't have the usually desired effect (reproducibility) anyway. It doesn't really allow you to lock things down to specific versions here, since the hxcpp-debug-server lib depends on the extension (which will at some point auto-update itself out of sync with the submodule, unless you disable auto-updates).
And even if you included the extension iteslf as a submodule too, it technically depends on a specific version of VSCode... ;)

[sh-dave]

Oh ok thanks for the info, didn't knew how this all plays together.

I'm still going with the linked submodule for now, as i remembered that khamake should be able to deal with relative paths, so i can just add project.addLibrary('libs/hxcpp-debugger/hxcpp-debug-server'); without all that manual handling.

Is there any versioning checking going on so that the extension or lib know they don't fit together, and i should update my submodule pointer (or maybe even if the vscode version is unsupported)?

[sh-dave]

But won't that fail when the extension updates and the user doesn't install the latest library now as well 🤔

[Gama11]

The extension automatically updates it when needed.