How to add busybox / rustybox commands?

[westurner]

• How to add busybox / rustybox commands?
  • DOC: README: link to
    • https://emscripten-forge.org/development/adding_packages/
    • https://github.com/prefix-dev/rattler-build#the-recipe-format
  • DOC: README: add a list of commands
    • https://github.com/jupyterlite/cockle/tree/main/test/tests/command
• rustybox (busybox), em-shell, container2wasm terminal#23
  • https://github.com/tbfleming/em-busybox
  • Fix: github-pages demo tbfleming/em-shell#7 (comment)
    • ls -al $(echo "$PATH" | tr ":" " ") doesn't work yet here either. /bin/sh has read; help read
  • https://github.com/ktock/container2wasm

[westurner]

• emscripten-forge: create and maintain a rustybox package
• emscripten-forge: create and maintain an em-shell/em-busybox packages
• DOC: emscripten-forge and container2wasm and docker+wasm and runwasi now IIUC
  • https://www.infoq.com/news/2023/02/containerd-wasi/
  • https://github.com/containerd/runwasi

[ianthomas23]

This and terminal are an early-stage work in progress looking at adding terminal-like functionality to JupyterLite. We make no claims about completeness, we are not encouraging anyone to use it, there is lots more work to be done and obstacles to overcome before then. Really at this stage it is just an experiment in one particular approach, and we are making enough progress to justify continuing with this approach. If there are unsurmountable problems with this approach then we will change it.

So information about other possible approaches is interesting at this stage, but it is not going to change what we are doing now. If you have a strong feeling that another approach is better then you are welcome to implement that yourself in a separate project. JupyterLite has a robust extension system so it is possible for multiple terminal-like extensions to exist and users can easily choose which one they want to use.

[westurner]

Would you be opposed to wrapping rustybox commands with tests for each?

• https://github.com/jupyterlite/cockle/tree/main/test/tests/command