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Allow concurrent debug sessions for no-config debugging

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Assessment

Difficulty
5/5
Estimated time
Over a week
Newbie friendliness
35/100
Issue type
Feature
Clarity
Mostly clear
Activity status
Stale
Tech stack
python, typescript
Domain
devtools

Research direction

Start by tracing how DEBUGPY_ADAPTER_ENDPOINTS is handled for no-config debugging. Compare the proposed pipe and folder approaches, then determine which supports concurrent sessions without endpoint overwrites or premature deletion; done means concurrent connections can be established reliably.

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Description

feature-request needs spike

Currently DEBUGPY_ADAPTER_ENDPOINTS takes path to a file. This means that in the terminal we can only set path to a single file. Concurrent, connections can overwrite the file.

Considerations:
[Options PIPE] Make the file a PIPE. For this DEBUGPY_ADAPTER_ENDPOINTS should not be deleted by debugpy on exit.

[Option Folder] DEBUGPY_ADAPTER_ENDPOINTS could point to a folder. Debugpy, creates a temp file with random name and put the port number in it. We can monitor the folder for file creation and connect.

Dominant language
TypeScript
Stars
181
Forks
126
Avg merge
8h 49m
Merged PRs (30d)
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