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Codespaces but open-source, client-only and unopinionated: Works with any IDE and lets you use any cloud, kubernetes or just localhost docker.
https://devpod.sh
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Support local projects inside WSL with Docker provider #1131

Open pingu8007 opened 1 week ago

pingu8007 commented 1 week ago

Is your feature request related to a problem?

To work with existing local projects inside WSL with Docker.
More exactly, to work with following setup:

Which solution do you suggest?

If specified local path points to inside of WSL, detect the existence of Docker endpoint and rebuild path to local form.

Which alternative solutions exist?

Install Devpod inside WSL and config multi-hop SSH might work. Never tried.

Additional context

Most Docker solutions for Windows use WSL as their backend.
It's already known that accessing files on Windows from WSL has very poor performance, and VScode recommends cloning projects directly into WSL if possible.

You may also consider refactoring the file picker to natively support projects located on any remote side. It would be useful if the code is not allowed to leave the remote environment and is too large to clone every time.

patrick-mota commented 1 week ago

I came with the exact same feature request because, for me, working with Windows paths is very slow.

However, I think the feature you asked for is missing the SSH resolver too. When I SSH from Windows, it works, but not from WSL2. So, I guess if they implement WSL2 support, they will need to address that as well.