Managing dependencies

[afeld]

I work on a team that has standardized on using VSCode, with varying levels of comfort with the command line. We happen to use pip.

When creating an environment, the Python extension helpfully offers to install dependencies, which is great. Managing dependencies beyond that initial setup is left to the users. My attempt as a user story:

As a VSCode user working on a Python project with file for managing dependencies,
I want VSCode to help ensure my installed dependencies match what I'm supposed to have
so that I'm working with the intended packages/versions.

The dependencies file may change as a result of:

• Being modified through the editor
• Pulling down updates from version control
• Switching branches

One way to go about it: when the dependencies file changes, ask the user whether they'd like their dependencies to be updated. Perhaps there could also be a setting to do this automatically.

I looked through dozens of past issues and didn't see anything that quite matched — apologies if I missed. Thanks!

[karthiknadig]

I want VSCode to help ensure my installed dependencies match what I'm supposed to have
so that I'm working with the intended packages/versions.

@afeld Can you try this? There is a setting python.missingPackage.severity set it to error. And then when you open requirements.txt or pyproject.toml it should tell you if there are missing packages. We could expand that check to report version issues.

Here is what you should see:

[github-actions]

Because we have not heard back with the information we requested, we are closing this issue for now. If you are able to provide the info later on, then we will be happy to re-open this issue to pick up where we left off.

Happy Coding!

[afeld]

Sorry for not responding sooner, I somehow missed the reply.

Yep, I upgraded to the pre-released version of the extension and am seeing the behavior you describe, thank you. Nice-to-haves would be:

• Version checking
• Something louder, like a notification

Happy to open separate issues for those or whatever would be helpful.

[karthiknadig]

@afeld Please open separate issues.