VS code and Juila system image?

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I haven’t been coding much lately, so I’m a bit out of touch with recent developments. In the past, VScode-julia would find and use a system image in the project directory, but that seems not to be the case now. From a plain linux zsh, the system image works fine. Also, the previously available build task to create a system image does not seem to be present. Am I missing something, or has system image support been removed?

using v 1.124.2 of the extension, and Julia 1.11, with juliaup

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We removed the feature because our sense was that is was rarely used and it was hard to maintain, plus now that native code is stored by Julia itself the use-case for creating custom system images is much less strong…

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On more reason not use the VSCode Julia shell, but a plain Bash shall from within VSCode so that you can start Julia with any parameters you need, or with a script.

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OK, thanks, that’s understandable. It’s true that it’s not needed nearly as much as before. I will try out the persistent session tmux stuff. That could accomplish more or less the same result, for me at least.

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I use Vscode-julia mostly to run blocks of code interactively when teaching, so I think I need the vscode shell for that, no?

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Well, you can always just copy and past blocks of code into the REPL. And yes, using the VSCode Julia shell makes that more convenient, but it is a matter of taste, everything has advantages and disadvantages.

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You can use the “connect to external repl” command instead. The “external” REPL can still be from a vs code terminal

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