Foam: ["BUG"] No foam commands working with v0.6

[fmagin]

Describe the bug
All the Foam commands fail with e.g. Command 'Foam: Show graph' resulted in an error (command 'foam-vscode.show-graph' not found) and analogous for the other commands in v0.6

They still appear in the Command Palette, so they are loaded in some way, but the actual command doesn't seem to be properly setup.

Affected package

• foam-vscode

To Reproduce
This might be something with my setup again, will try to track this down if someone can give me some pointers.

Additional context
Maybe this is related to frontmatter formatting issues again?

[riccardoferretti]

The fact that all the commands fail makes me think there is an issue with the bootstrapping phase of the extension.
I noticed in the code we would simply log such a problem (see https://github.com/foambubble/foam/blob/d054e19eae517408696dc6a6b5edb4c26c929e4e/packages/foam-vscode/src/extension.ts#L53), we should instead use window.showErrorMessage to present it to the user.
As I wanted to have a new release today or tomorrow, I will add this change so that you can more easily find out if that's the problem, and what the cause is.

[riccardoferretti]

removing milestone as what I am doing for this milestone is not a fix to the problem, but a tool for better reporting/investigation

[b2m9]

Same problem here. I'll provide some system information:

• Version: 1.51.1
• Electron: 9.3.4
• Chrome: 83.0.4103.122
• Node.js: 12.14.1
• V8: 8.3.110.13-electron.0
• OS: Linux x64 5.9.10-1-MANJARO

[riccardoferretti]

There seems to be a sporadic linking issue in 0.6.0, which I applied a fix for in 0.7.0 - @fmagin @b2m9 can you update and check if the problem is still there?

[fmagin]

Yes, the commands work again!
For what it's worth, I am using Arch Linux which should have quite similar package versions to Manjaro, so maybe this was related. I think another person I know on Manjaro also had this issue. So it might not have been that sporadic after all, but it seems to be fixed now. Thanks!

[b2m9]

Just in case other Linux users find this via search:

If you use Code OSS or VSCodium you won't see the new versions of the Foam extension because they're not using the Microsoft Marketplace anymore by default. Instead, they use OpenVSX. The extension on OpenVSX is not updated at the moment. From what I can tell it's also not clear whether it will be a reliable update channel in the future.

To switch back to the Microsoft Marketplace, follow instructions on SO.

[riccardoferretti]

thanks @b2m9, we will release to OpenVSX too moving forward as well