Please provide update for Remote Interpreter support

[WSLUser]

Environment data

• VS Code version: Version: 1.33.0-insider (system setup)
• Extension version (available under the Extensions sidebar): 2019.2.5558
• OS and version: Windows 7
• Python version (& distribution if applicable, e.g. Anaconda): 3.7
• Type of virtual environment used (N/A | venv | virtualenv | conda | ...): N/A
• Relevant/affected Python packages and their versions: all

Expected behaviour

Detect and use python from remote environment

Actual behaviour

Does not currently do this.

Steps to reproduce:

Mount a remote workspace via SSHFS extension. Create a python file and see how Intellisense does not work.

Logs

Output for Python in the Output panel (View→Output, change the drop-down the upper-right of the Output panel to Python)

N/A

Output from Console under the Developer Tools panel (toggle Developer Tools on under Help; turn on source maps to make any tracebacks be useful by running Enable source map support for extension debugging)

N/A

This was originally requested in #79 but conversation was locked down therefore creating new issue to determine where this feature is at.

Additional context: Since I can't add input on that issue, I'll provide it here. The SSHFS extension makes use of the FileSystemProvider API to perform SFTP sessions. Per SchoofsKelvin/vscode-sshfs#31, there's nothing the extension can do make things work for other extensions. Therefore I filed microsoft/vscode#66046 but it isn't getting any noticeable attention. In issue, the developer stated that extensions were capable of making use of the API to make ssh:// paths available.

Additional digging shows that there is a method of doing this provided by an ATOM extension and Pycharm also supports this (they even support WSL). For reference here are the related ATOM extensions: https://github.com/steelbrain/Atom-Hack and more relevant: https://github.com/steelbrain/AutoComplete-Hack.

So please implement this at your earliest convenience, provide updates and make this your new landing zone for comments.

[DonJayamanne]

Closing in favor of #67

we purposefully don't give out timelines, sorry.

#67 (comment)