Simon Parten

*This project hasn't been picked for GSoC * Oh no! I’m away right now, so will write back in a week or so. I’d like to have a think before...

@tgodzik So I'm definitely up for this, although I have no experience with this sort of tooling. Should be fun. Sadly however for "reasons", I need to ban myself before...

@tgodzik I hope to have some time over the coming weeks to look at this... my plan over the coming days is to look at getting started with changing metals...

@tgodzik So, I have invested a little time and sat down with this, and have (already!) reached the stage at which I'm not sure how to proceed. This is complex...

This is potentially a very useful note https://github.com/microsoft/vscode-jupyter/discussions/10813 https://jupyter-client.readthedocs.io/en/latest/kernels.html#kernel-specs https://github.com/microsoft/vscode-jupyter/discussions/10151 In summary; this now all looks tractable, if I can figure out how to bootstrap almond out of the coursier...

I made a slight change (pushed to branch above) to the shell runner to allow it to accept extra repositories when downloading dependancies, because almond has a dependancy on JVM...

> Actually, fetch which is done in runJava will return the full classpath, which it used to run and you can also get the scala-kernel from there. Ooooo, okay, let...

Rather a long message with some big leaps. Did it make sense? Still thinking.

> Or classpath + kernel jar? I think it's this... or at least that'll be my next attempt! I'll aim in this direction. I'm probably not going to look at...

@tgodzik Hi ... thankyou again for taking the time to write back and help... that looks perfect. still a bit delayed... and trying to find time a block of time...