Requirements for Extension about vscodejupyter

[davidanthoff]

Yes, the Anaconda distribution works with julia.

Having said that, the story is somewhat more complicated... The julia kernel for Jupyter comes via the julia package IJulia. On a julia prompt, one can just install that with Pkg.add("IJulia"). What happens next depends on the users system:

If there is a jupyter or ipython on the PATH, then IJulia will use that. If not, it will install a private python+jupyter just for its own use. This private python will not be on the path.

Normally jupyter kernels are registered in the folder ~/.jupyter, but I'm not sure what happens if IJulia creates a private jupyter install, i.e. whether it still registers the julia kernel in that location, or also somewhere private.

Long story short, I think maybe the easiest approach is to say that users need to have a jupyter on their PATH with a julia kernel registered onto that if they want to use this extension? And for now just ignore the case where IJulia has a private jupyter installation.

[DonJayamanne]

Great, one last thing
The way it works is first we need to start a jupyter notebook (in the background).
I will provide the ability for the user to view the URL of the notebook server, if they wish to view it in their browser.

[davidanthoff]

Hm, interesting. I thought jupyter had a non-notebook server mode where clients could connect? But maybe they just combined that all?

[davidanthoff]

Ah, I understand now, the javascript client library you are using needs the notebook server, so all clear.

[DonJayamanne]

Great

[DonJayamanne]

Besides if anytime wanted to launch the notebook, they could do so. I know at least one of the python users did (hopefully still does)'