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spmeesseman / vscode-taskexplorer

Run and Manage Tasks for Visual Studio Code
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Question about supporting extension-provided task types #183

Open bmcclure opened 1 year ago

bmcclure commented 1 year ago

I'm looking for the ability to run the tasks provided by the dart and flutter extensions, and potentially other extensions that expose their own custom tasks to vscode. Since those extensions already do the work of exposing the tasks to vscode in a way that they can be run, would it be possible for Task Explorer to generically pick up additional types of tasks provided by extensions, or would they need to each be added to Task Explorer manually?

bmcclure commented 1 year ago

Actually, while it seems like I can optionally either create an extension to register Dart and Flutter's tasks with Task Explorer, or contribute the code to those extensions if they'll accept it, I'm wondering why it's not possible for Task Explorer to pick up task types from installed extensions automatically, similar to how the Task Manager extension does it? It seems like a lot to ask for every task provider to be aware of Task Explorer and provide code to support it.