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Provide an onTask:foo activation event #126238
Description
When trying to run a task of type foo when the extension that contributes the relevant task provider not activate the task fails with:
There is no task provider registered for tasks of type "foo"
There's a suggestion at #103942 (comment) that the extension should use an activation event of onCommand:workbench.action.tasks.runTask, but this seems too eager - it will result in the extension being activated for unrelated workspaces and using up resources (eg. spawning language servers, etc.).
I personally find it quite infuriating when I'm working in a workspace of one language type and some random action triggers the activation of a bunch of extensions that do expensive work (for example when the C# extension suddenly activates and starts downloading SDKs, which block some VS Code actions until it completes!). I'd prefer not to have my own extensions have that sort of behaviour.
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vscode-triage-bot commentedon Jun 15, 2021
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vscode-triage-bot commentedon Aug 5, 2021
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DanTup commentedon Aug 5, 2021
It seems unlikely this issue is going to get 20 upvotes because a typical user doesn't really understand what this is for. Without this, it's just going to encourage more extensions to eagerly activate and result in other complaints (like performance, or extensions downloading SDKs when they were never supposed to be active, etc. - of which there are already many raised issues).
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alexweininger commentedon Sep 4, 2021
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This is a much needed feature for extensions that provide tasks.