Decide whether to base the devcontainer on `mcr.microsoft.com/devcontainers/python`

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Decide whether to base the devcontainer on `mcr.microsoft.com/devcontainers/python` #208

Open coretl opened 2 hours ago

coretl commented 2 hours ago

See https://github.com/devcontainers/images/tree/main/src/python

Pros:

Already has zsh so should be a lot quicker to start a new devcontainer (with common-utils feature) - needs testing
Contains additional tools like pipx

Cons:

More change
Another tie into Microsoft ecosystem

@callumforrester @garryod thoughts?

garryod commented 2 hours ago

Don't think the tie in would be too strong, but generally prefer composition (features) instead of a monolithic base container. Then again, features can be rather slow