Implement `jupyter kernelspec install` in Javascript

n-riesco / ijavascript

IJavascript is a javascript kernel for the Jupyter notebook

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Implement `jupyter kernelspec install` in Javascript #137

Open n-riesco opened 6 years ago

n-riesco commented 6 years ago

Moved from https://github.com/n-riesco/ijavascript/issues/135#issuecomment-350513925

Hi @rgbkrk I have two questions:

do you know whether different versions of jupyter install the kernelspecs in different folders?
in the example you posted, there are 3 possible folders. The first one is the user's folder. I guess the other two are used for a global installation. When does jupyter use one folder or the other?

rgbkrk commented 6 years ago

'/Users/kylek/Library/Jupyter' // User level installed kernels
'/usr/local/share/jupyter' // System level installed kernels
'/usr/share/jupyter' // Base installed kernels

There's two other functions we could export from jupyter-paths that would likely be of use to you:

systemDataDirs -- for global installs of ijavascript
userDataDirs -- for user installs of ijavascript

You should not need the logic for installing it into a sys.prefixed location.