[Feature Request] Support Catkin Tools

• Windows: Windows 10 Enterprise Version 1909
• Linux: Ubuntu 20.04.1 LTS (WSL) (uname -a: Linux *** 4.4.0-18362-Microsoft #1049-Microsoft Thu Aug 14 12:01:00 PST 2020 x86_64 x86_64 x86_64 GNU/Linux)
• ROS 1: Noetic
• ROS 2:

Version of the plugin: v0.6.4

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Version: 1.49.1 (system setup)
Commit: 58bb7b2331731bf72587010e943852e13e6fd3cf
Date: 2020-09-16T23:27:51.792Z
Electron: 9.2.1
Chrome: 83.0.4103.122
Node.js: 12.14.1
V8: 8.3.110.13-electron.0
OS: Windows_NT x64 10.0.18363

what is the bug

Under some circumstances, the ROS extensions selects the catkin_make build tools when catkin tools would be correct.

Repro steps

1. Create ROS workspace
2. Build with catkin_make
3. Remove build and devel directories
4. Build with catkin build
5. Load ROS workspace in VS Code
6. Open build tasks (Ctrl+Shift+B) and see catkin_make and catkin_make_isolated as if the workspace was recently build with catkin_make (obviously, catkin_make fails because the workspace was build with catkin build)

expected behavior

See catkin as build task

additional context

Currently, the extension detects the build tool by looking if the file .catkin_workspace (placed by catkin_make) or the directory .catkin_tools (placed by catkin build) exist. Both tools also place a file at devel/.built_by which contains the name of the build tool (catkin build or catkin_make).

(Bonus: Right now the names of the build tasks are very confusing. catkin_make: build executes catkin_make, catkin: make executes catkin build. The build task for catkin build should be catkin: build, catkin tools: build or catkin tools: make.)

[FSund]

@stertingen There are two sets of Catkin utilities - the official utilities like catkin_make and the catkin tools. We do not test the latter. We have had many reports of it not working. Since it isn’t officially supported, this work item is about officially supporting it and testing.

From the marketplace page

The build system (e.g. catkin_make or catkin build) will automatically be confirmed from the hidden files associated with each system.

Has this been implemented, or is the marketplace text referring to something else?

[ooeygui]

Catkin tools is supported - https://github.com/ms-iot/vscode-ros/blob/master/src/build-tool/catkin-tools.ts. It looks like the check is currently not working.