Extension does not support WSL about rename-angular-component HOT 7 CLOSED

Hi @YannickMG

Thanks for your thorough issue report.

WSL is certainly a platform I had yet to test on.

The symptoms you’ve given me suggest that the extension fails as the Indexer process starts to initialise by locating the package.json file.

You’ve definitely taken all sensible steps and I appreciate you trying to create a log file. The log file would have been created in the root of your project as 'rename-angular-component-debug-log.txt'. But if it’s identifying the project file root when inside WSL that is the problem - as is likely from the symptom above, then it won’t have been able to create the file in the right place.

I’ll get onto this shortly.

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Hi @tomwhite007 got same issue. Really hope you can fix it soon!

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Hi @DuckPluck
I'm intent on getting this fixed in the next update.

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Hi @YannickMG and @DuckPluck

I have run some tests, and can confirm I know what's required to upgrade the process to work on WSL. The work is not trivial, so you can watch this PR for progress: Feat/use vscode workspace fs #31 .

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Thanks for the update. I would've thought that VS code would offer some standard API it also uses when dealing with remote environments, since it's a feature they advertise so much.

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Hello @YannickMG and @DuckPluck

I put some proper time into the conversion to using vscode.workspace.fs api this week. To my horror, I've discovered the refactor which uses a reduced set of fs commands slows the extension processes down by more than 10 times. So slow that I'd lose most of my existing users.

It is with regret that I'm going to have to say, I can't support WSL.

My apologies guys, you'll have to open your project on the Windows FS side to use the extension. It's not often I say no, but my hand is forced, sorry.

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No worries, thanks for looking into it.

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