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.devcontainer/devcontainer.json

@@ -15,15 +15,16 @@
         "EC_PROJECT": "${localWorkspaceFolderBasename}"
     },
     "features": {
+        // add quality of life features for developers including git config integration
         "ghcr.io/devcontainers/features/common-utils:2": {
-            "installZsh": false,
-            "installOhMyZsh": false,
-            "installOhMyZshConfig": false,
+            // don't upgrade to make this similar to the runtime container
             "upgradePackages": false
         }
     },
     // IMPORTANT for this devcontainer to work with docker EC_REMOTE_USER must be
-    // set to vscode. For podman it should be left blank.
+    // set to vscode. You will run as vscode with full sudo rights.
+    // For podman it should be left blank. You will run as root but host mounts
+    // will be owned by your user.
     "remoteUser": "${localEnv:EC_REMOTE_USER}",
     "customizations": {
         "vscode": {
@@ -34,7 +35,7 @@
                 "redhat.vscode-yaml",
                 "ryanluker.vscode-coverage-gutters",
                 "epicsdeb.vscode-epics",
-                "ms-python.black-formatter"
+                "charliermarsh.ruff"
             ]
         }
     },
@@ -47,15 +48,17 @@
     "runArgs": [
         // Allow the container to access the host X11 display and EPICS CA
         "--net=host",
-        // Make sure SELinux does not disable with access to host filesystems like tmp
+        // Make sure SELinux does not disable write access to host filesystems like tmp
         "--security-opt=label=disable"
     ],
-    "workspaceMount": "source=${localWorkspaceFolder},target=/epics/${localWorkspaceFolderBasename},type=bind",
-    "workspaceFolder": "/epics/${localWorkspaceFolderBasename}",
+    // Mount the parent of the project folder so we can access peer projects
+    "workspaceMount": "source=${localWorkspaceFolder}/..,target=/workspaces,type=bind",
+    // mount in other useful files from the host
     "mounts": [
-        // Mount some useful local files from the user's home directory
-        // By mounting the parent of the workspace we can work on multiple peer projects
-        "source=${localWorkspaceFolder}/../,target=/repos,type=bind",
+        // we also mount the project folder into a know location in the container
+        // this is where the ibek-support and ioc folders reside in the container build
+        // in this way the devcontainer and runtime look very similar
+        "source=${localWorkspaceFolder},target=/epics/generic-source,type=bind",
         // this provides eternal bash history in and out of the container
         "source=${localEnv:HOME}/.bash_eternal_history,target=/root/.bash_eternal_history,type=bind",
         // this bashrc hooks up the .bashrc_dev_container in the following mount

.gitignore

@@ -11,7 +11,5 @@ ibek
 # dont save workspaces as other users will have differing folders
 *workspace
 
-# ignore output folders of epics builds
-**/O.*
-ioc/bin
-ioc/lib
+# config folder is there to be replaced there is just a dummy with Readme.
+ioc/config

requirements.txt

@@ -1,3 +1,3 @@
-ibek==1.5.4
+ibek==1.6.2
 # to install direct from github during development in the dev branch:
 #git+https://github.com/epics-containers/ibek.git@dev

requirements_ec.txt

@@ -1,3 +1,3 @@
-epics-containers-cli==2.6.9
+epics-containers-cli==2.7.0
 # to install direct from github during development in the dev branch:
 #git+https://github.com/epics-containers/epics-containers-cli.git@dev