Add Project Meta-issue

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Project Summary

One of the core functionalities of the python environments extension is project management. A project (in the context of this extension) will be defined as: "a single or group of python files which have a environment connected to them". Projects are created by aPythonProjectCreator which implements a create function that will return a PythonProject.

Here is the creators we plan to have as built-ins in the extension:

Creator	Description	QuickCreate	MVP?	Issue
Add Existing Project	Allow user to select file/folder within workspace	No	Yes	-
Auto-Find Project	Projects collected in workspace by finding pyproject.toml files	Yes?	Yes	#398
Python Package	Create new Python Package	Yes	Yes	#392
Python Script with PEP 723	Create single script with env defined by PEP 723 format	Yes	Yes	#393
Django	New Django project	Yes	No	#394
FastAPI	Create new FastAPI project	Yes	No	#396
Flask	Create new Flask project	Yes	No	#397

Outstanding Work

Todos and Status for Built in PythonProjectCreator

• Add Existing Project
• Bug Fixes: New Project: Auto-Find #398
• New Project: Python Package #392
• New Project: PEP 723 Script #393
• New Project: Django #394
• New Project: Fast API #396
• New Project: Flask #397

Copilot Integration

Additionally, build in projects will be linked up with copilot to provide better support for these project types by copilot during the "new" creation flow.

• "New Project" to /new for copilot #286

Bug Fixes

• Hide Add Python Project context menu item if already selected as Python Project #272
• Polish Add Python Project flow #179
• Project Multiroot Bugs #399
• autoFindProjects Ignore prefix paths #410

references:

• original issue on "new projects": Add a Python: New Project command #191
• over-arching issue on MVP: Python environments MVP #190
• this repo needs to be added to with scenarios for use and testing: https://github.com/eleanorjboyd/python-envs-scenarios