[draft] Attempt to install extensions in workbench that fail to install from remote code-server #238815
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Provides a way for the remote server to report back to the workbench a set of extensions that it could not install. The workbench will then attempt to install the set of extensions. This is useful in cases when a remote does not have access to the marketplace, but a local machine does. This will effectively proxy the installation of an extension through the user's machine.
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@joshspicer Thanks for the initiation. Instead of adding a new On the workbench, add a new contribution similar to that installs extensions which are missing on the remote. |
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related: microsoft/vscode-remote-release#9994 , microsoft/vscode-remote-release#5927 (comment) , microsoft/vscode-remote-release#9090 , microsoft/vscode-remote-release#9454 (comment)
Provides a way for the remote server to report back extensions that it could not install. The workbench can read this value and attempt to install these of extensions.
This is useful in cases when a remote does not have access to the marketplace, but a local machine does. This will effectively proxy the installation of an extension through the user's machine, closing several Remote - SSH issues
See early demo below showing the end-to-end. This demo uses a modded Remote - SSH that will connect to a server pre-started on my local machine. That server process is blocked from accessing
marketplace.visualstudio.com, causing an error to be thrown in the serverThe workbench can reach the marketplace and is able to perform the installation.
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