Request: VS For Mac version?

[ksavoie]

Quick question.
Is a VS For Mac edition a possibility for CodeMaid?

Thanks.

[codecadwallader]

Thanks for the suggestion! After a brief look at https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/visualstudio/mac/extending-visual-studio-mac it looks like the framework and APIs are custom for Mac extensions compared to Windows extensions. Consequently it would be a fairly big port effort and an ongoing support effort to try and keep the separate code bases going. While not impossible, it's fair to say unlikely.. but if anybody is interested in running with that effort I'd be more than happy to work with them. :)

[ksavoie]

I figured as much but thought I would ask as I could use the extension. Thanks.

[Jammer77]

I very interested to port that extension to Mac.

[codecadwallader]

You're very welcome to look into it! Of course the code is open source, and be sure to check out http://www.codemaid.net/contribute/ for some good getting started information.

[InquisitorJax]

I think even if it's a subset of critical features like code formatting - that would be great!
Increasingly working in teams where members are split between Mac & windows. Sharing a code format makes code review diffs MUCH easier ;)

[orestesgaolin]

Did anyone try to undertake this effort? I'm way too unexperienced to try it on my own, but would really love to help.

[tomaszzmudzinski]

This would be really great if this plugin exist on VS for Mac

[ozielguimaraes]

I don't have experience with extensions for VS, but i'm very interested to help develop an extension to VS for Mac.

[codecadwallader]

Cool, it looks like a place to get started with reading up on VS for Mac extensions is https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/visualstudio/mac/extending-visual-studio-mac?view=vsmac-2019

[ozielguimaraes]

Yes, I was just looking this documentation

@Jammer77 @orestesgaolin @ozielguimaraes

Did any you look into porting this? If so, did you make any progress? I've got no experience with developing extensions, but I'm happy to take a stab at doing this. I work in VS for Mac almost exclusively now, and this is the only extension I really miss.

[ozielguimaraes]

I was taking a look on the documentation, but it's seem to be more difficult than i thought