Although development on Windows is fine for the WLAN Pi, there are a few areas to consider due to the differences between Windows (your dev machine) and Linux (the target OS used by the WLAN Pi)
When using Visual Studio Code (VSC) with Git on Windows, files that are edited will use a CR + LF for line endings in text files (this includes shell scripts, config files & Python files). This will cause issues when running Python and shell scripts on the Linux OS used by the WLAN Pi. Also, configuration files may also have CR + LF endings added, which causes issues when they are read by a Linux based script or program.
Linux uses line endings that are a single LF by default. When editing files destined for Linux system using VSC & Git on Windows, we need to ensure that we configure Git to use only LF line endings for the WLAN Pi project we are working on.
The best approach is to force the use of LF line endings via the git environment configuration parameters. The parameters to be used are shown below. Note that they may be configured on a per-project basis (local parameters), or globally for all projects (global parameters). There is no need for any program restarts once these changes are made, they become effective immediately.
# global parameters to force all projects to use LF line endings
# list current settings
git confg --global -l
# set line endings
git config --global core.autocrlf "false"
git config --global core.eol "lf"
# list new settings
git confg --global -l
# local parameters to force a specific project to use LF line endings
# list current settings
git confg --global -l
# set line endings
cd <project dir>
git config --local core.autocrlf "false"
git config --local core.eol "lf"
# list new settings
git confg --global -l
The quick and easy way to check the line endings used in a file you are working on is to look at the status bar at the bottom right of the VSC UI. LF indicates the file is using only LF characters. CRLF indicates that the ile is using CR + LF characters (which is a bad thing). To change the line endings used, simply click the CRLF text and change it to LF using the drop-down provided at the top of the UI.
