FR: please co-publish on Open VSX Registry

[GitMensch]

Please make this extension available to Open VSX marketplace, this will also make it directly available for VSCodium and Gitpod. Open VSX already has a bunch of COBOL extensions including some debuggers, but this one is missing, and especially with its interesting configurable approach this would be very nice.

Open VSX is a vendor-neutral open-source alternative to the Visual Studio Marketplace. It provides a server application that manages VS Code extensions in a database, a web application similar to the VS Code Marketplace, and a command-line tool for publishing extensions similar to vsce.

There is a guide for publishing and after the initial setup it is just a matter of osvx publish (similar to the MS marketplace). If you want to then there's also a GitHub action to auto-publish on tagging to both (or one) marketplace referenced there (but a manual upload is also possible).

[GitMensch]

ping, I guess @GustavoASC

[GustavoASC]

Hi @GitMensch,

Thanks for opening this issue!
We will publish it to Open VSX during this week. 👍

[GustavoASC]

Hello,

Created EclipseFdn/publish-extensions#344 in order to publish the extension to Open VSX.
For now, I did it manually, but let's look ahead to add an automatic publishing Github action.

According to Open VSX Readme, it will be live at 03:03 UTC after they accept the pull request.

Hope it helps! 😄

[GitMensch]

As noted in their response it would be good to have it published directly, not from the publish-bot (so the process is the same as with the ms-marketplace).

[GustavoASC]

Yeah, I will use npx ovsx publish and after that I will close/cancel that PR, in case everything works fine.
I used this publish-bot for a personal extension once, so I thought it would be easier.

But npx ovsx publish really looks better.
I will comment here again as soon as I publish with npx ovsx publish

[GustavoASC]

The extension is now published and can be found here 😄
https://open-vsx.org/extension/rechinformatica/rech-cobol-debugger

[GitMensch]

Marvelous!

[GitMensch]

You may want to claim its namespace, more information can be found in the Open-VSX Wiki

[GitMensch]

Please update - it is on 1.0.39 and therefore quite outdated.

You may want to use a GitHub action that allows publishing to Open VSX and the MS market place together by releasing/tagging; HaaLeo/publish-vscode-extension does this, for example.