Cache extension manifest files

[jrieken]

We have seen some performance report about slow extension scanning and registering. This is the umbrella item which we use to track this.

[jens1o]

is this going to be handled in august release?

[sandy081]

@jens1o No

[jens1o]

😢

[shanalikhan]

Explore caching the package.json files of installed extensions

In iteration plan.
So Code will generate the extension.json file itself and to export / from API and CLI to setup extensions.

It would be great help for my Settings Sync !

[sandy081]

@alexandrudima FYI here is the issue referring to scanning extensions.

[alexdima]

Starting with November, the extensions manifest files (package.json) will be cached under the user data dir, in a folder called CachedExtensions. There will be a file named builtin (for a cache of the built-in extensions) and a file named users (for a cache of the user installed extensions)