microsoft / microsoft/vscode-cpptools
`configProviderTimeout` is hard-coded to 2s
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Feature: Configuration
Feature: Configuration Provider
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Description
Currently, there is a hard-coded timeout of 2s when requesting a configuration from a custom configuration provider.
Opening this issue to track potentially moving that timeout into a setting, to allow users to avoid issues if their configuration provider is slow to respond.
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- Fork the repository and make your change on a branch.
- Open a pull request that references the issue number.
Research direction
Start by locating the hard-coded configProviderTimeout value in the TypeScript extension code and reviewing how existing settings are defined. Determine the appropriate setting scope and behavior for slow custom configuration providers; done means users can configure the timeout instead of being limited to 2 seconds.
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Assessment
- Tech stack
- typescript
- Domain
- tooling
- Issue type
- Feature
- Difficulty
- 5/5
- Estimated time
- Over a week
- Activity status
- Stale
- Clarity
- Needs clarification
- Newbie friendliness
- 30/100