How to have more clear way to execute tools after installing them?

[joamatab]

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What happened?

After installation, there is no clear way to launch the installed tools (jupyterlab, spyder)

https://github.com/gdsfactory/gdsfactory/blob/master/construct.yaml

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gdsfactory/gdsfactory#723

[jaimergp]

You usually provide a conda package that ships a shorcut JSON file for menuinst on Windows (this is what console_shortcut does). Source here.

Docs for menuinst 1.x:

• https://github.com/conda/menuinst/wiki/Menu-Shortcut-Config-Structure
• https://github.com/conda/menuinst/wiki/Menus-in-Conda-Recipes

[joamatab]

Thank you Jaime,

how could we have menuinst available on PyPi or conda?

[jaimergp]

It's on defaults and conda-forge, and it comes preinstalled with conda! Include it in your construct.yaml as one more dependency next to conda if you want to be explicit.

[joamatab]

Hi Jaime,

How can we also have menuinst available on Linux and MacOs?

conda/menuinst#109

[jaimergp]

@joamatab After some time, menuinst v2 should be publicly available and integrated in conda soon. Once conda 23.11 is released, which should have support for menuinst v2, we can add explicit support here in constructor too.