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Just curious why the "Prerequisites" section says:
https://github.com/espressif/vscode-esp ... requisites

The ESP-IDF Tools Installer does all of this automatically, which is far better than installing things one by one. Why not just recommend the Installer ?

ESP-IDF Tools Installer:
https://docs.espressif.com/projects/esp ... -installer

username wrote: The ESP-IDF Tools Installer does all of this automatically, which is far better than installing things one by one

Yes the tools installer should install all those prerequisites.

username wrote:Why not just recommend the Installer ?

Because the tools installer is only available on Windows. Linux/Mac users need to install those prerequisites through their respective package managers. A user may also choose to install the tools one by one if they want to use a specific version of a particular tool.

If a user has not installed the correct tools before running the ESP-IDF VSC plugin (i.e., hasn't run the tools installer), the plugin's onboarding process has option to download and install the necessary tools as part of onboarding.