"ERROR Manifest missing field: version" while building vscode extension

[mgrojo]

$ make -C ide/vscode dist
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sed -i "s/\"version\": \".*\"/\"version\": \"$(echo  | sed 's/\.dev/-dev/')\"/" package.json && vsce package -o recordflux.vsix && sed -i "s/\"version\": \".*\"/\"version\": \"0.0.0\"/" package.json
 ERROR  Manifest missing field: version
make: *** [Makefile:15: recordflux.vsix] Error 1
make: se sale del directorio '/home/mgr/src/github/mgrojo/coap_spark/tools/RecordFlux/rflx/ide/vscode'

The problem is that the environment variable VERSION does not exist. Maybe the make execution should define it or a reference in the documentation about defining it should be added?

My workaround has been:

export VERSION=0.0.1
make -C ide/vscode dist

Current commit in the repository is tag v0.23.0.

[mgrojo]

Later, the extension is installed correctly using make install, but in the documentation is not very evident that you have to run that inside ide/vscode/

[treiher]

Thank you for reporting this issue. We have simplified the creation of the VS Code extension and improved the documentation. You can now execute make vscode from the top-level directory to build the extension.