[Request] Running vscodeoffline on Windows where `docker-compose` is not available but `pipenv` is available

[hmasdev]

I want to use vscodeoffline on Windows 10 where I cannot use docker-compose but pipenv.
I think this is an important issue, because I guess that not a few organizations prohibit using docker on Windows.

How do you think about it?

The followings are what I expect and a rough roadmap to the goal.

Excpected behavior

• Running pipenv run vscsync runs vscsync as an alternative to docker-compose up vscsync and
• Running pipenv run vscgallery runs vscgallery as an alternative to docker-compose up vscgallery.

Roadmap

1. find an alternative library for Windows to gunicorn, which is a WSGI HTTP Server for UNIX;

2. update .gitignore in order to ignore Pipfile.lock;

3. add Pipfile and .env as follows:

   [[source]]
   url = "https://pypi.org/simple"
   verify_ssl = true
   name = "pypi"
   
   [packages]
   logzero = "*"
   requests = "*"
   pytimeparse = "*"
   falcon = "*"
   {HERE IS A LIBRARY FOUND IN 1st STEP} = "*"
   watchdog = "*"
   
   [dev-packages]
   
   [requires]
   python_version = "3.7"
   
   [scripts]
   vscsync = "sh -c '{HERE IS A COMMAND LIKE IN ./vscodeoffline/vscsync/Dockerfile}'"
   vscgallery = "sh -c '{HERE IS A COMMAND LIKE IN ./vscodeoffline/vscgallery/Dockerfile}'"
   

   and

   ARTIFACTS="${PWD}/artifacts/"
   SYNCARGS="--sync"
   BIND="0.0.0:4430"
   TIMEOUT=180
   THREADS=4

4. modify some hard-coded paths in ./vscoffline/server.py and ./vscoffline/vsc.py. For example,

   vscodeoffline/vscoffline/vsc.py

   Lines 16 to 20 in 39d80f3

   	ARTIFACTS = '/artifacts/'
   	ARTIFACTS_INSTALLERS = '/artifacts/installers'
   	ARTIFACTS_EXTENSIONS = '/artifacts/extensions'
   	ARTIFACT_RECOMMENDATION = '/artifacts/recommendations.json'
   	ARTIFACT_MALICIOUS = '/artifacts/malicious.json'

   vscodeoffline/vscoffline/server.py

   Line 411 in 39d80f3

   observer.schedule(ArtifactChangedHandler(vscgallery), '/artifacts/', recursive=False)

   vscodeoffline/vscoffline/server.py

   Line 422 in 39d80f3

   application.add_static_route('/artifacts/', '/artifacts/')

   vscodeoffline/vscoffline/server.py

   Line 350 in 39d80f3

   with open('/opt/vscoffline/vscgallery/content/index.html', 'r') as f:

   vscodeoffline/vscoffline/server.py

   Line 367 in 39d80f3

   with open('/opt/vscoffline/vscgallery/content/browse.html', 'r') as f:

5. test the above changes.

[tomer953]

the docker is just a wrapper for running the python code, I don’t see a reason why you cant run the python files without docker.
(after installing the required dependencies )

[LOLINTERNETZ]

This is basically written as a PR without the PR :-)

Happy to add pipenv with a PR as I tend to utilise Docker for separation of concerns.