Conda: stacking environments

[masonk]

I am trying to set up a monorepo that uses stacked conda environments, let's call them 'base' and 'subproject1'.

The intention is to use conda's stacking facility so that subproject1 is stacked on the base environment. The base environment will contain some really basic conda env, like the code formatter we are to use throughout the monorepo, as well as an installation of a "development package" of the monorepo itself.

Stacking conda env works well from the command line, but Python: Select Interpreter -> choose subproject1 activates the env without stacking it onto base, even if conda is configured to autostack (conda config --set auto_stack 1). This makes sense because there's no way to tell VSC which env to stack onto.

Is it possible for VSC to adopt a stacked conda environment in anyway?

[masonk]

Anybody coming to this thread with the same problem, one thing we're considering is to manage the composition of conda environments without using stacked environments through a third-party compositing tool like https://github.com/conda-incubator/conda-env-builder.

[github-actions]

Thanks for the feature request! We are going to give the community 60 days from when this issue was created to provide 7 👍 upvotes on the opening comment to gauge general interest in this idea. If there's enough upvotes then we will consider this feature request in our future planning. If there's unfortunately not enough upvotes then we will close this issue.

[rootsmusic]

@masonk microsoft/vscode-python-environments#79 says "we are expecting community extension for full featured support (like for example stacked envs in conda)".

P.S. strange to open voting 7 months after you posted this issue.