I wish they would start working on a auto-update feature for linux installations
I've never seen that on Linux I think there are some technical limitation for that feature, Chrome doesn't have auto-update either.
Visual Studio Code 1.7.2
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Re: Visual Studio Code 1.7.2
#12I think these "recovery builds" are inevitable with the cadence they are maintaining on major releases. Fastest moving MS project I've seen. I'm really curious how big their team is that works on this. 2-pizza sized?
Looks to be ~20 people as far as I can tell (source: I'm a MS employee, not on the vscode team)
Re: Visual Studio Code 1.7.2
#13I wish they would start working on a auto-update feature for linux installations
I've never seen that on Linux I think there are some technical limitation for that feature, Chrome doesn't have auto-update either.
Well, I'd be fine with apt-get upgrade... It's what Chrome does, as well.
Re: Visual Studio Code 1.7.2
#14Earlier quoted context omitted.
I've never seen that on Linux I think there are some technical limitation for that feature, Chrome doesn't have auto-update either.
Well, I'd be fine with apt-get upgrade... It's what Chrome does, as well.
I second this, I'd just appreciate better integration with apt - I'm already using this method to update my linux machines anyways
Re: Visual Studio Code 1.7.2
#15Will it bring npmjs down again? Is there any hidden new upgrade to npmjs recently?
Two main issues combined to cause the NPM problems: NPM didn't cache 404 responses, so they were much more expensive than normal fetches, and VS Code issued way too many requests which resulted in 404s.
Both have been addressed -- NPM handles 404s better now, and VS Code will no longer request packages which don't exist (by downloading the registry package once). Either fix would have be sufficient, but having both is better.
Re: Visual Studio Code 1.7.2
#16I think these "recovery builds" are inevitable with the cadence they are maintaining on major releases. Fastest moving MS project I've seen. I'm really curious how big their team is that works on this. 2-pizza sized?
I'd be willing to send the team a couple pizza's for their work on this... It's my favorite product to ever come out of MS.
Re: Visual Studio Code 1.7.2
#17I think these "recovery builds" are inevitable with the cadence they are maintaining on major releases. Fastest moving MS project I've seen. I'm really curious how big their team is that works on this. 2-pizza sized?
Looks to be ~20 people as far as I can tell (source: I'm a MS employee, not on the vscode team)
It's less than that. I used to be the designer on the team. For the initial release, we had 13 people.
Re: Visual Studio Code 1.7.2
#18Earlier quoted context omitted.
I've never seen that on Linux I think there are some technical limitation for that feature, Chrome doesn't have auto-update either.
Well, I'd be fine with apt-get upgrade... It's what Chrome does, as well.
The problem with this is that if they support apt, where should it stop ? should they support portage, pacman, homebrew, Nix, Guix, yum, dpkg ?
I don't think it is Microsoft's job to provide packages for every manager. They should make an executable and then anyone who uses a package manager can package the program.
Here's where you can get a community PPA for VSCode: https://github.com/tagplus5/vscode-ppa
Re: Visual Studio Code 1.7.2
#19I wish they would consider changing the name of it, it's all but impossible to search for any internet wide resources on it.
Re: Visual Studio Code 1.7.2
#20Earlier quoted context omitted.
Well, I'd be fine with apt-get upgrade... It's what Chrome does, as well.
The problem with this is that if they support apt, where should it stop ? should they support portage, pacman, homebrew, Nix, Guix, yum, dpkg ? I don't think it is Microsoft's job to provide packages for every manager. They should make an executable and then anyone who uses a package manager can package the program. Here's where you can get a community PPA for VSCode: https://github.com/tagplus5/vscode-ppa
APT and YUM are the standard tbh, the rest is up to the community.