[Feature Request] Add a setting to disable specific environment managers

[symzn]

Hello,

I create a new extension that adds micromamba support using your API: https://github.com/symzn/vscode-micromamba-env.
Currently, when an extension provides support for an environment type that is similar to a built-in one (like micromamba vs. conda), both managers can discover the same environments.
This leads to:

• Duplicate entries in the "Python: Select Interpreter" list.
• Potential user confusion about which environment source to use.

Proposed Solution
It could be great to have a new VS Code setting that allows users to specify a list of environment managers to disable.

Benefits
User Control: Empowers users to fully customize their environment toolchain.
Cleaner UI: Ensures a clean and de-duplicated list of Python interpreters.
Flexibility for Extension Authors: Allows specialized extensions (like for micromamba or pixi) to offer a seamless "replacement" experience for built-in managers.

Thank you for considering this proposal!

[eleanorjboyd]

Hi! Thanks so much for creating this new extension, I can't wait to go try it out!

This is a good idea... some managers do interfere so we should have a way for users to fix this or specify.

@karthiknadig any thoughts here?

[eleanorjboyd]

Hi @symzn sorry for the delay here but we want to think through the problem holistically to make a good long term decision on this problem of overlapping. So we are working on this but don't have an update yet in what direction to go.

I have installed your extension and it is great! Ill look to figure out those few bugs you filed in addition to the feature request so thank you for filing them.

Thanks!

[symzn]

Hello,
Thank you for your reply. Don't worry, I can lwait and live without this feature for a while.

Finally, the most critical issue preventing me from spreading the extension to others is the problem with the notebook kernel selection that does not propose micromamba's envs cf the bug I raise on select interpreter (I suppose that it could be the root cause).

Again Thanks!