better toml has to be deprecated

[goyalyashpal]

screenshot from vs code i.e. using proprietary ms store

[filiptronicek]

Hi there @goyalyashpal 👋.
Currently, Open VSX (nor the VS Code Marketplace) have deprecated extension functionality built into them. This is a separate concern of a so-called control manifest, which instructs VS Code about the availability of different extensions. https://open-vsx.org has no official one yet (proposal pending), but Gitpod maintains a fairly up-to-date one in their repo here.

You can add it by changing your VS Code's product.json file, like Gitpod does here.

[goyalyashpal]

hi again. how can i do that? i tried looking up, but couldn't find any definitive steps. i am using vscodium 1.84 on win 10

[filiptronicek]

@goyalyashpal to do that, you can open your VSCodium's product.json file, which I am not entirely how to find on windows, but I reckon it's somewhere inside of its Program Files folder. There, you can simply change extensionsGallery.controlUrl to https://ide.gitpod.io/code/marketplace.json. After saving and restarting VSCodium, you should be able to utilize the list.

It most likely won't have any guides online, since it's an internal feature of VS Code. At Open VSX, we're trying to make it simpler and the default for programs like VSCodium.

[goyalyashpal]

Currently, Open VSX (nor the VS Code Marketplace) have deprecated extension functionality built into them.

Glad it finally landed :)
I was stumbling on way tooo many old abandoned/unmaintained extensions lately. Now, i just need to figure out which version of VSCodium does this support landed on.

@filiptronicek can you please "close this issue as completed"? as this better-toml extension is now rightly been marked deprecated on open-vsx too.

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Open VSX now supports deprecating extensions - see our announcement.

Wednesday, 2024 October 30 - 14:08 by John Kellerman
- New Feature in Open VSX: Deprecating Extensions | Eclipse Foundation Staff Blogs