Clarification on *.vsix offline installs · Issue #3300 · microsoft/vscode-cpptools · GitHub
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Clarification on *.vsix offline installs #3300

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@CBtiger

you have many posts clarifiying the problem that the standard *.vsix package causes errors at the first start because the cpptools extensions wants to download extensions. I think I read all your issues on that and I also found the Release folders where you provide the different version per OS.

What I do not understand is that nobody is asking why the main target version seems to be missing there. You provide

  • Linux32
  • Linux (I take its Linux64)
  • MacOS
  • Win32

What about Win64? The majority of downloaders should run a Win X64 platform. I ran into the described problem with the standard .vsix download. Now I am confused. Would I compromise my Win x64 system my installing the win32 version? I did not see a '.vsix' uninstall...

You would help people a lot when addind a small section in your ReadMe.md about "Offline Install". Because its surprising to users that your extension is the only one that does not work for an offline case. Technically totally feasible that dependencies vary with the traget system, why not just telling people in the readme that everyone who downloaded the "standard" *.vsix file should consider to take one (or more) of those . If you could add a sentence what Win-64bit users should select than you would have made my day!

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