Relative paths or environment variables in settings

[psolyca]

Is your feature request related to a problem? Please describe.
To develop, I use an environment which is shared accross different computers with different partition structures.
I use environment variables to set my environment around VSCode (VSCodium).
Using absolute path in settings is a bit pain cause I need to change it every time I change my computer.

Describe the solution you'd like
I would like to be able to use environment variables in path settings ${env:MYVAR} or relativ paths.

[Surendrajat]

@psolyca are you talking about the path of dependencies (apktool etc.) ? If so, is there any existing extension that is doing this kind of thing(accepting absolute paths and also accepting env vars)? I'd like to see if it's supported in VS Code, in any way.
However, I don't get the relative path thing. Could you explain a bit more with some example?

[psolyca]

For on extension using this, I know Python is able to use environment variables, I set it like that.
"python.pythonPath": "${env:PROGRAM}\\Python\\python.exe"
As the extension is looking in the PATH variable, I am not sure it is not superseeded my own variable.
The extension is also searching for python.exe in variables relativ to virtual environment.
https://code.visualstudio.com/docs/python/settings-reference#_general-settings

Thinking about that, using relativ paths could not really work ^^;

Maybe trying to find needed JAR files or folder (jadx) in PATH ?

EDIT: I also tried to use environmnet variables in another extension which is not working ! So maybe not easy to implement.

[psolyca]

I have just look around for this but you can not currently.
microsoft/vscode#2809

[Surendrajat]

I see. I think if VS Code implemented such a thing then we don't need to do anything. Therefore, I will be going to wait for that to happen instead of writing some hacky implementation of it.