VS Code Extension

[itavero]

At work we have also been using CPM.cmake and we were already using VS Code a lot with the CMake Tools extension.

One of the "complaints" I got, was that it wasn't always easy to find the contents of a package pulled in via CPM.cmake since we are using a global source cache (via the CPM_SOURCE_CACHE environment variable).
So, I decided to "hack" together an VS Code extension myself: CPM.cmake Manager.

When a CMakeList.txt is detected in the workspace (which should also trigger the CMake Tools extension), it tries to figure out where the CMakeCache.txt is and extracts the CPM related stuff from it.
Based on that information, it shows a list of included packages in the Explorer view of VS Code.
From that list you can easily open a new VS Code window for the source directory of a package and see which version is used (if it's a Git dependency, it also tries to see if there are newer tags available and show you that information as well).

Just a first version and there's probably room for lots of improvements, but I thought I'd share this as it might be of use to others as well.

[TheLartians]

That's awesome, thanks for sharing!

Out of curiosity, you planning to publish the source code of the extension (the provided GitHub URL seems to lead nowhere)?

I think it would be great to add a section for tools like this to the Readme to allow easier discoverability by users.

[itavero]

Oops! Forgot to change the visibility of the repository. It should work now 😅