| 21 Apr 2025 |
 corruptcomputer | Since afaik, they don't update very often | 23:14:08 |
| corruptcomputer | But those others from MS have constant updates to them | 23:14:55 |
 GGG | Well, if you are using flakes you could use the bot-updated VSCode extensions flake | 23:15:17 |
| GGG | If not, you can just install them from the VSCode Marketplace and have VSCode auto update them itself | 23:15:32 |
| GGG | Just gotta take care to not update the C# ones | 23:15:41 |
| corruptcomputer | I don't use flakes yet, still trying to learn base NixOS before trying to dig into some of those more advanced features. I did see that home-manager also had a way to do it, but that also looked quite complex to setup | 23:16:08 |
| GGG | Fair enough | 23:16:25 |
| GGG | I'd recommend you don't really bother with it for now and let VSCode manage the extensions that aren't packaged in nixpkgs for now | 23:16:48 |
| corruptcomputer | yeah I think thats what I'm going to do for now, eventually I'll get around to looking at those other options | 23:17:20 |
| corruptcomputer | Thanks again for your help! | 23:17:27 |
| GGG | no problem! | 23:17:33 |
| GGG | I'm considering making a dotnet module to help people have a good .NET setup and avoid some of those pitfalls I mentioned (fixed env var, using runtime and sdk at the same time, etc.) | 23:18:11 |
| corruptcomputer | that would be fantastic if possible, something like environment.development.dotnet.enable = true; or similar would be so nice to have | 23:19:35 |
| GGG | I was thinking of something like programs.dotnet.enable = true and then you pick the versions you want and it'll configure env vars, files in /etc and stuff to make it work properly | 23:20:08 |
| GGG | then later on when MS finally figures out how they're gonna let distros package workloads it could tap onto that as well | 23:20:23 |
| corruptcomputer | Oh wait a minute, is it not possible to install the aspire workload with this? | 23:21:11 |
| corruptcomputer | I need that for my app to work... | 23:21:17 |
| GGG | since the directory where .NET lives is read-only, dotnet workload install doesn't work | 23:21:30 |
| GGG | I have no idea how to get workloads working with .NET in NixOS since I haven't used them myself | 23:21:44 |
| GGG | oh nevermind | 23:22:10 |
| GGG | apparently userlocal file instructs .NET to do the install per user | 23:22:23 |
| GGG | so it should be fine, my bad | 23:22:28 |
| corruptcomputer | Oh nice, ok thats good then | 23:22:35 |
| corruptcomputer | Yeah I am not super happy with the way workloads are handled, imo they should really be bundled with dotnet proper but I'm not MS so I can't change that :/ | 23:23:14 |
| corruptcomputer | I've had so many issues with updating dotnet, forgetting to update the workloads, and the app just failing every build until I remembered to do that | 23:23:32 |
| GGG | having optional components is good to keep size and dependencies down, but it's annoying how they have their own package management solution instead of delegating it to distros | 23:23:54 |
| GGG | they seem to have plans to let distros package them, but I don't know at which stage that is at right now | 23:24:11 |
 6pak | or just making them regular project deps | 23:24:22 |
| 6pak | but keep in mind you have to do it yourself | 23:24:31 |
| 6pak | in your nixos config | 23:24:36 |
