Expose electron version to extension code

In general, extension that uses binary dependency may want to read electron version to properly prepare such dependencies to work in provided environment.

I’m want to integrate telemetry into extension to better understand users behavior. Google’s stackdriver chosen for this purpose, but there is issue that stop me from deploy extension. Stackdriver libs using another one called grpc which is binary module and it requires to be built upon specific elector version (as long as extension code use electrons require).

So to sum up, when my extension downloaded/updated by vscode, it starts to download precompiled grpc binary, but there i need to get electron version vscode compiled with.

[salterok]

If I understand docs properly language server is intended to be separate process (non restricted to NodeJs) so extension author should be able to configure such process in a proper way. On the other hand extension is started by vscode in which case author has no control over environment. So i think it should be ok that only extension gets proper versions in process as long as developer can control language server creation.

[salterok]

No. I’ll open another one in main vscode repo.

Thanks again for help!