VS Code does not detect when installing a pre-release VSIX

[sandy081]

• Prepare a vsix with pre-release version using VSCE vsce package --pre-release
• Install the vsix in VS Code
• VS Code does not detect this as a pre-release

[gjsjohnmurray]

Even when Marketplace supports SemVer this workflow will still be necessary because of the continued prohibition on proposed-API-enabled VSIXes being published there.

Users of some extensions I am involved with need to install such VSIXes manually because we have been waiting years for some vital APIs to get finalized and there's still no sign of movement on them.

When they do that with a proposed-API-enabled VSIX that is also a pre-release it is not good that the extension no longer behaves in VS Code as a pre-release.

Pinging @Colengms in case this is also relevant to you.

[sandy081]

When marketplace supports SemVer, pre-release flag is changed to be computed from version. It also applies when installing VSIX.

[gjsjohnmurray]

But you estimate the Marketplace support only arriving at the end of this year, right?

[sandy081]

Yes.

[vscodenpa]

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