Support for Extension Packages

[phreed]

There are a number of programs, which which are designed to be extended.
These tools call their extensions by different names: plugins, addons, flows, extensions, ...
Examples: Eclipse, VSCode, node-red, etc.

What are your thoughts on making conda packages for these extensions?

Here are some motivating examples.

VSCode Extensions

• direnv-vscode provides an interface for using direnv
• pixi-pycharm provides a wrapper for pixi

Node-Red Flows

• mongodb flow provides a wrapper for mongodb

Con: (do not provide extensions as conda packages)

The tools already act as their own package manager.

Pro: (provide extensions as conda packages)

While the tools can manage their extension packages well enough
they do not manage the dependencies of those extension packages.