Feedback on a proposal for helping tools find environments created by PDM

[brettcannon]

I was hoping someone/@frostming could have a look at brettcannon/python-launcher#168 and let me know if there's anything in that proposal that wouldn't work for PDM? Specifically, is the proposal missing anything if PDM (or anyone for that matter) were to provide a _py_launcher_pdm entry point that allowed tools like the Python Launcher, VS Code, etc. to discover virtual environments that PDM created? I'm not explicitly asking anyone implement this idea right now, I'm just trying to do my homework before starting to do any coding around it.

[frostming]

PDM doesn't create environments itself but the plugin pdm-venv does, using whatever backend(virtualenv, venv, conda) users choose.

PDM also has its own python discovery logic using findpython. I have no objection implementing such an entry point and let's see how that can be improved.

[brettcannon]

Thanks for the info! I'll have a look at findpython and keep you in the loop as stuff progresses.