March 24-31, 2024 in Darker: VSCode compatibility and project maintenance

[akaihola]

This week saw improvements in Darker's compatibility with VSCode and various project maintenance tasks. We merged a fix to allow the --stdout option to work with stdin input, addressing an issue that was affecting VSCode users (PR #574). This change makes it easier to configure Darker with the VSCode black-formatter extension. We also updated our README with improved instructions for VSCode integration and clarified the "How does it work?" section, adding information about Darker's limitations and potential work-arounds (PR #566).

On the project maintenance front, we moved the update-contributors script to a separate development tools package (PR #577), addressing a long-standing issue with missing dependencies. We also fixed README badge links (PR #576) and made improvements to package data inclusion, allowing Mypy to understand typing during editable installs (PR #575). The community continued discussions on potential performance improvements, with a new issue opened to add a summary of time spent in different phases of a Darker run for debugging purposes (Issue #573). Additionally, we began the process of deprecating skip_* Black options in the [tool.darker] configuration section (PR #578), paving the way for future updates to our configuration handling.

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