Making an app command available to other apps

[Milan Bouchet-Valat]

Hi,

Any chance to get a reply to my question? It's really blocking to
create a Julia Flatpak app. :-/


Le samedi 28 avril 2018 à 15:34 +0200, Milan Bouchet-Valat a écrit :
> Hi,
> 
> I have recently prepared a Flatpak app for the Julia language [1]. It
> was relatively simple, and it works well (Julia provides a .desktop
> file which runs the julia executable in a terminal).
> 
> Then I realized things are more complicated when it comes to making
> Julia available to other Flatpak apps. In particular, Atom and VSCode
> plug-ins are quite popular. They need to be able to run the julia
> executable. This is possible via an extension point, which has just
> been added to the Atom app [2]. Thanks to this extension I can make an
> io.atom.Atom.Extension.julia app which provides Julia to Atom.
> 
> But this approach is problematic: there needs to be one app for each
> IDE where a Julia plug-in exists, plus one app for the vanilla Julia.
> Users need to install the specific app for their IDE, and it won't give
> them access to the vanilla Julia, which can be useful. Worse, if they
> install several Julia Flatpak apps, the settings will not be shared
> (and in particular they will have to reinstall packages manually).
> 
> So I was wondering whether this kind of scenario has been considered.
> Maybe I just missed something obvious. It looks like it would be
> possible to handle it by allowing the Julia app to provide multiple
> extensions (one for each IDE).
> 
> Thanks for your help!
> 
> 
> 1: https://julialang.org
> 2: https://github.com/flathub/io.atom.Atom/issues/8
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