Conda `PATH` entries added to end of `$PATH`

[mingwandroid]

Environment data

• VS Code version: 1.28.2
• Extension version (available under the Extensions sidebar): 2018.19.1
• OS and version: macOS 10.14
• Python version (& distribution if applicable, e.g. Anaconda): python 3.7, Miniconda
• Type of virtual environment used (N/A | venv | virtualenv | conda | ...): conda

Actual behavior

The conda PATH entires are added to the end of $PATH (or that's what the integrated terminal tells me) meaning which python gives /usr/bin/python on macOS.

[rdonnelly@0558 conda-build]$ echo $PATH
/usr/local/bin:/usr/bin:/bin:/usr/sbin:/sbin:/Applications/VMware Fusion.app/Contents/Public:/opt/conda/bin
[rdonnelly@0558 conda-build]$ which python
/usr/bin/python
[rdonnelly@0558 conda-build]$

Expected behavior

The conda PATH entries should be added to the front of $PATH.

I should point out that when debugging, the right python interpreter is run, however print(os.environ['PATH']) shows the same problem, and during execution of, say, conda-build, when it fetches sources from a git repo the too-old system git executable gets found instead of the more modern one that has been installed into the conda environment.

Steps to reproduce:

1. XXX

Logs

Output for Python in the Output panel (View→Output, change the drop-down the upper-right of the Output panel to Python)

XXX

Output from Console under the Developer Tools panel (toggle Developer Tools on under Help)

XXX

[DonJayamanne]

The prom extension does not control the environment in the terminal.
You might want to report this upstream in Conda or VSCode, on how you should set up your paths.

[mingwandroid]

Thanks @DonJayamanne, I do not believe It is a conda issue (I work for Anaconda, Inc on packaging, conda-build and sometimes conda). Conda only every appends to the front of path so something else must be going on.

I don't know anything about the internals of VSCode, how do extensions send PATH modification information back to the app? Is there any way to specify that it should be prepended and not appended? How and where are multiple plugin path entries combined?

[mingwandroid]

I use the newish conda stuff here too btw, provided that work made it into 1.28.2?