Vscode-jupyter: Start page > open sample notebook is broken

[joyceerhl]

On WIP/NoDS in vscode-python we are still executing python.datascience.opennotebook to open the sample notebook, which of course has been renamed to jupyter.opennotebook. Two ideas to solve this:

1. Update it to execute jupyter.opennotebook, problem is if Jupyter extension is not installed this would be a noop. Solution to that would be to display a prompt at this juncture telling the user that they need the Jupyter extension to open the sample notebook.
2. Instead of the Python extension directly executing the command, add an extensibility point to the API. However we would still need to check for whether the jupyter extension is installed at this juncture I believe.

Other approaches/suggestions/thoughts here? @DonJayamanne @rchiodo @ianmatthewhuff @davidkutu

[rchiodo]

Another possible idea:

• Keep the command. Command handler checks for jupyter extension. If there, runs the other command, if not, asks user to install it.

[DonJayamanne]

Another possible idea:

• We just ship Jupyter as a dependency of Python extension.

[joyceerhl]

Keep the command. Command handler checks for jupyter extension. If there, runs the other command, if not, asks user to install it.

Please see https://github.com/microsoft/vscode-python/pull/14362 😊

[joyceerhl]

Closing as the PR above has been merged.

[joyceerhl]

Should probably have someone validate this.

[rchiodo]

Blocked on https://github.com/microsoft/vscode-jupyter/issues/202

[IanMatthewHuff]

This looks good to me now with vscode-jupyter + vscode-python(WIP/NoDS). Validated.