[vscode] API gap: Theia master vs. VS Code 1.77.0

[rschnekenbu]

This bug tracks the differences between current master Theia VS Code API and VS Code 1.77.0:

• [vscode] API gap: Theia master vs. VS Code 1.76.0 #12233
• [vscode] Support continuous tests runs #12374

[rschnekenbu]

As the 1.76 and 1.77 are now resolved, I pushed a new PR to bump the API version.
@vince-fugnitto should we also update the built-ins?

[marcdumais-work]

Hi @rschnekenbu - we are caching-up fast, thanks for your contributions in that area!

As recently discussed at the dev-meeting (I think), we should take into consideration what proposed API from vscode, we may be missing at least in stub form, that's used (implicitly required) by some of the vscode built-in extensions (v1.77.0 in this case). This will help avoid issues when more recent built-ins are published, if Theia already "supports" the proposed API they need.

I will open an issue tomorrow with the details about such problems we found with built-ins 1.77.0 used against master, that we may consider addressing before bumping Theia's API version.

Thanks,
Marc

[rschnekenbu]

Hi @marcdumais-work, thanks a lot for your quick feedback! I have indeed seen the discuss #12450.
I was currently checking what is done in the vscode-builtins, and also checking whether theia-vscodecov tool could be of any use there, as a one shot or on a build job.
I'll add an entry in the discuss, that should be more appropriate than here.

[marcdumais-work]

I was currently checking what is done in the vscode-builtins

@rschnekenbu if you had not seen it yet, please see this wiki, I have been working on recently, for more info about the built-ins: https://github.com/eclipse-theia/vscode-builtin-extensions/wiki/Produce-and-Publish-the-set-of-vscode-built-in-extensions

[marcdumais-work]

We have the 3 following issues and another one coming soon affecting vscode.simple-browser:

ProfileContentHandler (affecting  built-in vscode.configuration-editing) :
#12520

EditSessionIdentityProvider (affecting vscode.git)
#12521

TerminalQuickFixProvider (affecting vscode.npm):
#12522

[alvsan09]

Here is the fourth one:

ExternalUripener (affecting vscode.simple-browser)
#12523

[vince-fugnitto]

Closed thanks to #12516.