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Installing vscode completely offline #335

Closed PeterJohnson closed 1 year ago

PeterJohnson commented 1 year ago

Currently the installer only supports installing offline using a .zip file the installer creates when it's run online. This is problematic at events with poor internet where it's difficult to get a laptop connected to the internet while running the installer to download the installation files. We should provide a way to install vscode or create the vscode zip file that does not require the full installer to be run. E.g. provide a link on the releases page or documentation to get the correct version of the vscode platform zip/tgz and have the installer support installing directly from that rather than our custom packaged zip.

Starlight220 commented 1 year ago

At ISR3 we (CSAs) had that .zip separately on a thumb drive; I think the CSA drive tool extracted it.

sciencewhiz commented 1 year ago

The CSA tool does not. I used the installer to create the Zip file and added it to my usb.

Since we need different installers for different platforms, I think there's minimal benefit to having an all in one zip vs using the individual files, so I'd be in favor of this change.

ThadHouse commented 1 year ago

The benefit to the all in one zip is you don't need access to the other platforms as a CSA to download the right one. I will however make it so you can also use the stock zips as well, since I now have ways to detect those.

sciencewhiz commented 1 year ago

I've never carried the installer for other platforms besides windows as a CSA, and at 1.5 gb+ each, I doubt many do.