In data lunedì 9 giugno 2025 22:55:56 Ora legale dell’Europa centrale, Quentin Michaud ha scritto:
Hi all,
Hi
I am interested in packaging vscodium [1] into extra but am worried that it would be seen as a duplicate of the code [2] package. This situation is unclear and not explicitly mentioned in the wiki [3]. I asked the question on Matrix/IRC and this stirred a larger debate, so artafinde suggested me to post the question here in order to have a record of the discussion and potential decisions.
From what I understand code and VSCodium are basically the same thing, or at the very least they aim to produce almost the same result and it wouldn't make sense to have them both in [extra]. From the VSCodium homepage: "If you want to build from source yourself, head over to Microsoft’s vscode repo and follow their instructions". That is what the "code" package does. VSCodium is a prebuilt package, and when you then go and build it from source you are just building code (Github project description: "binary releases of VS Code without MS branding/telemetry/licensing") That's at least if the project description is accurate. I am not aware if there are more substantial code changes between the 2 repos. That being said I really don't like to maintain code, so if you want to adopt it and rename it you have my blessing and I would very much like to abandon it. -- Massimiliano Torromeo