Publish on PyPI

[jtpio]

Really cool project, thanks for setting that up!

I was wondering if you were planning to distribute the kernel on PyPI at some point?

There are some on-going discussions about adding this kernel to the Try Jupyter demo site: jupyter/try-jupyter#30

Having a published package on PyPI would make it easier to include in other JupyterLite deployments.

[jtpio]

For such projects we usually use the Jupyter Releaser to help make releases: https://jupyter-releaser.readthedocs.io/en/latest/get_started/making_release_from_repo.html

For example the Xeus Python uses the releaser in case you would like to have a look: https://github.com/jupyterlite/xeus-python-kernel

I'm also happy to help set it up if needed.

[stevejpurves]

+1 for this as using the Jupyter Releaser would also mean the source extension package becomes available on npm.

[ericvd-ucb]

+1 for this project! I could see a huge demand for this and have big deployment that can use this

[joelostblom]

I'm currently looking for a project that can support both Python and R interactively in the browser. JupyterLite seems like an ideal candidate if this WebR kernel becomes available on PyPI. I saw that there was recently a commit to make the package compatible with pip in 0d67ab3, is the plan to also upload to PyPI?

[georgestagg]

Yes, the plan is eventually to upload to PyPI. However, I'd like a few features working before initial release there:

• A more stable webR API, so that the specific version of R/webR can be swapped out by the Jupyterlite user.
• A better way for the webR filesystem to interact with the existing jupyterlite file system.