Design Discussion: How to handle paths better

[ranchhandrobotics]

In order to implement features to make it easier to use ROS, the VSCode extensions make assumptions about the environment it is running in. However, there are many different environments - windows, linux, mac, docker, pixi, conda, custom virtual environments, custom versions of ROS, WSL, kubernetes - which make these assumptions problematic - but I don't have a good sense on the "right" way to handle this - or even test it.

I'd love some design input. What's a use case where the extension makes incorrect assumptions? What are places that you have to work around? How would you propose solving the simple cases along with the more complex cases?

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