The extension feature is only enabled in Microsoft VS Code builds. @egamma I think you documented distributions somewhere?

@bpasero Is this restriction set in stone, or is there a possibility that it might be reviewed at some point?

I'm asking since I can see having vscode readily available across the many different Linux distributions being a lot easier if it is left to the distributor to simply ship the OSS build from their repos, but still in such a case I'd prefer extensions coming from the official marketplace and not making distributing extensions overly complicated where we have to upload our extensions to many different places.

@bgse more background on this topic.

CC @chrisdias

Could one simply configure their product.json to point to the official extension repositories? Is that allowed? In the analog of Chrome/Chromium, referenced in the split license issue by @chrisdias, Chromium is allowed to install Chrome Web Store extensions. Also, the actual README.md of the vscode repository includes a screenshot of the extension installer UI via F1, so if that's not allowed, I'd recommend the screenshot be changed to show a feature which is available when the repository is actually built.

@rezonant yes, you can configure product.json to point to the official marketplace. look in the product.json that is installed with the visual studio code distro for the url.