microsoft / microsoft/WinAppVSCE

[Feature]: sign: cap package discovery without losing newest-first ordering

Open
#150 0 comments 0 reactions 1 assignee View on GitHub

@chiaramooney is already working on this.

Since Sep 8, 2026.

enhancement
Dominant language
TypeScript
Stars
13
Forks
3
Avg merge
6d 1h
Merged PRs (30d)
11

Description

Is your feature request related to a problem? Please describe.

winapp.sign currently discovers MSIX/APPX packages with an uncapped recursive glob and stats every match so it can sort packages newest-first. On very large workspaces this can do more filesystem work than the QuickPick needs. This behavior predates the executable/library discovery work for #77 and is not caused by that feature.

Describe the solution you'd like

Investigate a bounded or incremental package-discovery strategy that preserves the current newest-first UX and cancellation behavior while avoiding a full workspace scan/stat pass when only a limited number of QuickPick results will be shown.

Additional context

Surfaced as out-of-scope feedback during review of the #77 executable/library QuickPick enhancement. Replacing the glob directly with capped vscode.workspace.findFiles would lose deterministic newest-first ordering, so the follow-up should preserve that behavior.

Contributor guide

Open the contributing guide

First steps

  1. Read the whole issue, then the project's contributing guide.
  2. Comment on the issue to say you are picking it up — it saves two people doing the same work.
  3. Fork the repository and make your change on a branch.
  4. Open a pull request that references the issue number.

Assessment

This issue has not been assessed yet.

Get new issues in your inbox

A short digest of beginner-friendly GitHub issues.