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Eclipse Theia incompatibility caused by vscode minimal version
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Description
While trying to make vscode-ansible extension be loaded by Eclipse Theia, I discovered that latest version of vscode-yaml listed on open-vsx.org store within theia is 0.17 and not 0.18. I suspect this is caused by listing some requirements incompatible with theia like engines.vscode.
With 0.17 what happens is that extension fails to instantiate with an error message like:
The language client requires VS Code version ^1.52.0 but received version 1.50.0
Bumping the required version to 1.52.0 is likely a mistake that prevents use under theia and instead we should only require 1.50.0. Still, I am not sure if this does not cause some problems with the language server itself.
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Research direction
Start by comparing the vscode-yaml 0.17 and 0.18 metadata, focusing on the VS Code engine requirement that prevents loading under Eclipse Theia 1.50. Review the linked Theia issue and ansible-community/vscode-ansible#112, then verify whether changing the minimum version preserves language-server behavior and allows the extension to instantiate.
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Assessment
- Tech stack
- typescript
- Domain
- tooling
- Issue type
- Bug
- Difficulty
- 4/5
- Estimated time
- 3-5 days
- Activity status
- Stale
- Clarity
- Mostly clear
- Newbie friendliness
- 35/100