F5 (Build and Debug Active File) doesn't generate a tasks.json template and launch.json is missing stuff if no compiler is detected

[sean-mcmanus]

Do F5 (Build and Debug Active File) with no default compiler detected -- it could actually exist, but just not at a location we look at, so the user would need to manually add the paths, but it would be easier to do if the other stuff wasn't missing, e.g.

1. tasks.json doesn't get created.
2. launch.json is created but is missing the "program": "${fileDirname}\\${fileBasenameNoExtension}.exe" and preLaunchTask.

[elahehrashedi]

@sean-mcmanus the launch.json is not being created anymore. Are you asking to create a template task? for cppbuild?
That is a good idea, right now we can create a template if no compiler is found, but the template is not very informative:

    "tasks": [
        {
            "label": "echo",
            "type": "shell",
            "command": "echo Hello"
        }
    ]

Also, we have an issue on creating a better debug config templates: #8929

Maybe we can rename this to "create a task template".

[sean-mcmanus]

I think this bug's intent was just to handle the "no compiler detected" scenario well. I'm not sure what the current behavior is or how much better we could make it.