microsoft / microsoft/vscode-python-environments
What is the global environment for?
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Description
Hi, using my hatch environment extension, I ran into an usability issue: there are extensions that use the global Python environment such ruff and ty.
When setting a workspace environment, these extensions still use the global env, for which there is no clear indicator in the UI. How should this be fixed:
- should my extension just also set the global environment whenever setting a project-scoped environment?
- should these extensions be changed so they stop using
api.environments.onDidChangeActiveEnvironmentPath, which seems to track the global environment?
Maybe I just don’t really know what the 'global' scope is for … any guidance?
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