microsoft / microsoft/vscode-makefile-tools
support more assignment operators
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enhancement
Feature: Language Service
- Dominant language
- TypeScript
- Stars
- 242
- Forks
- 78
- PR merge metrics
- No merged PRs in 30d
Description
GNU make, bmake, and POSIX make recently adopted several assignment operators beyond the simple equals sign (=).
Newer assignment operators include:
:=::=:::=!=?=+=
Contributor guide
First steps
- Read the whole issue, then the project's contributing guide.
- Comment on the issue to say you are picking it up — it saves two people doing the same work.
- Fork the repository and make your change on a branch.
- Open a pull request that references the issue number.
Research direction
No file, test, or entry point is named. Start by locating the repository's Makefile assignment parsing and related tests, then compare their handling with the six operators listed in the issue. Done means GNU make, bmake, and POSIX make assignment syntax using these operators is recognized correctly.
Written by the indexing model from the issue text.
Assessment
- Tech stack
- typescript
- Domain
- build-system, tooling
- Issue type
- Feature
- Difficulty
- 3/5
- Estimated time
- 1-2 days
- Activity status
- Stale
- Clarity
- Mostly clear
- Newbie friendliness
- 45/100