Corrected post create command syntax and updated documentation.

Signed-off-by: davem-bis <68955845+davem-bis@users.noreply.github.com>

Author: davem-bis

.devcontainer/devcontainer.json

@@ -1,5 +1,5 @@
 {
-  "name": "SQLMesh Dev",
+  "name": "SQLMesh Python Dev",
   "image": "mcr.microsoft.com/devcontainers/base:ubuntu-24.04",
   "features": {
     "ghcr.io/devcontainers/features/common-utils:2": {},

.devcontainer/post-create-command.sh

@@ -3,7 +3,7 @@
 # This script is intended to be run by an Ubuntu dev container
 
 # Install OS-level dependencies
-$ALL_DEPENDENCIES = "libpq-dev netcat-traditional unixodbc-dev default-jdk msodbcsql18 libodbc"
+ALL_DEPENDENCIES="libpq-dev netcat-traditional unixodbc-dev default-jdk msodbcsql18"
 
 sudo apt-get clean && sudo apt-get -y update && sudo ACCEPT_EULA='Y' apt-get -y install $ALL_DEPENDENCIES
 

docs/development.md

@@ -16,14 +16,14 @@ Before you begin, ensure you have the following installed on your machine. Exact
 The development environment of SQLMesh depends both on:
 
 * Python functionality (e.g. `SIGUSR1`) that is only available on UNIX systems, and;
-* Symbolic links, which whilst available on Windows, are more involved that on Linux or MacOS.
+* Symbolic links in the repository which, whilst available on Windows, typically require additional permissions for the process running git.
 
 For the Python functionality, a dev container is provided to develop against Ubuntu 24 with Python 3.12.
 
-For symbolic links, you must ensure that:
+For symbolic links, you must ensure that when checking out the repository:
 
 - The git configuration `core.symlinks` is set to `true`
-- The process that git runs as is permitted to create symbolic links. This can be done via running git as an administrator, or enabling developer mode on Windows.
+- The process that git runs as is permitted to create symbolic links. This can typically be done by running git as an administrator, or enabling [developer mode on Windows](https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/advanced-settings/developer-mode).
 
 ## Virtual environment setup