Re: [julia-users] problems (and some fixes) for using Plots and PlotlyJS on FreeBSD

[Tony Kelman]

Most likely there are various platform-checking if statements that don't 
properly handle the freebsd situation of being not linux and not macos and not 
windows. Does Atom support FreeBSD, do they have binaries available? If so, a 
few more careful fallbacks might be able to fix this?

Re: [julia-users] problems (and some fixes) for using Plots and PlotlyJS on FreeBSD

[Kostas Oikonomou]

On 2nd thought, here is more of the (long) error message:

ERROR: Cannot find Electron. Try `Blink.AtomShell.install()`.
 in electron() at /usr/home/ko/.julia/v0.5/Blink/src/AtomShell/process.jl:53
 in #init#5(::Bool, ::Function) at 
/usr/home/ko/.julia/v0.5/Blink/src/AtomShell/process.jl:71
 in (::Blink.AtomShell.#kw##init)(::Array{Any,1}, ::Blink.AtomShell.#init) 
at ./:0
 in #shell#8(::Bool, ::Function) at 
/usr/home/ko/.julia/v0.5/Blink/src/AtomShell/process.jl:114

The  in line 4 looks suspicious.  Does it give you any clue?

On Monday, November 7, 2016 at 5:27:34 PM UTC-5, Kostas Oikonomou wrote:
>
> I'm just beginning with Julia, so I don't really know how to go about 
> doing this.
>
>
>

Re: [julia-users] problems (and some fixes) for using Plots and PlotlyJS on FreeBSD

[Kostas Oikonomou]

I'm just beginning with Julia, so I don't really know how to go about doing 
this.

On Monday, November 7, 2016 at 5:14:21 PM UTC-5, Tom Breloff wrote:
>
> You should probably open issues/PRs in the individual packages then... 
> this sounds like a Blink issue.
>
> On Mon, Nov 7, 2016 at 5:09 PM, Kostas Oikonomou  > wrote:
>
>> Yes, I did.  Unfortunately it didn't help.
>>
>> On Monday, November 7, 2016 at 3:44:29 PM UTC-5, Tom Breloff wrote:
>>>
>>> I'll ask the obvious question... did you try 
>>> "Blink.AtomShell.install()"?  Nice work getting as far as you did.
>>>
>>>
>>>
>

Re: [julia-users] problems (and some fixes) for using Plots and PlotlyJS on FreeBSD

[Tom Breloff]

You should probably open issues/PRs in the individual packages then... this
sounds like a Blink issue.

On Mon, Nov 7, 2016 at 5:09 PM, Kostas Oikonomou <
kostas.oikonomo...@gmail.com> wrote:

> Yes, I did.  Unfortunately it didn't help.
>
> On Monday, November 7, 2016 at 3:44:29 PM UTC-5, Tom Breloff wrote:
>>
>> I'll ask the obvious question... did you try
>> "Blink.AtomShell.install()"?  Nice work getting as far as you did.
>>
>>
>>

Re: [julia-users] problems (and some fixes) for using Plots and PlotlyJS on FreeBSD

[Kostas Oikonomou]

Yes, I did.  Unfortunately it didn't help.

On Monday, November 7, 2016 at 3:44:29 PM UTC-5, Tom Breloff wrote:
>
> I'll ask the obvious question... did you try "Blink.AtomShell.install()"?  
> Nice work getting as far as you did.
>
>
>

Re: [julia-users] problems (and some fixes) for using Plots and PlotlyJS on FreeBSD

[Tom Breloff]

I'll ask the obvious question... did you try "Blink.AtomShell.install()"?
Nice work getting as far as you did.

On Mon, Nov 7, 2016 at 3:35 PM, Kostas Oikonomou <
kostas.oikonomo...@gmail.com> wrote:

> I am using Julia 0.5.0 on FreeBSD 11.  I've had a few problems trying to
> install the Plots and PlotlyJS packages:
>
> 1. Just after installing Plots, I had to make this fix in
> ~/.julia/v0.5/Plots/src/backends/web.jl, function open_browser_window:
>
>@static if is_linux() || is_bsd()
> return run(`xdg-open $(filename)`)
>end
>
> 2. Now trying to install PlotlyJS.  HttpParser doesn't build, because in
> BinDeps.jl, function unpack_cmd(...), says
>
>elseif extension == ".zip"
>return (`unzip -x $file -d $directory`)
>
> The /usr/bin/unzip on FreeBSD doesn't understand "-x" (more precisely, it
> thinks
> it means "exclude").  GNU gunzip doesn't understand it either.  What
> "unzip" is
> this supposed to be?  I made an ugly hack to work around this.
>
>
> 3. In ~/.julia/v0.5/Blink/src/AtomShell/process.jl: I had to add is_bsd()
> to
>
> @static if is_apple()
>   const _electron = resolve("Blink", "deps/Julia.app/Contents/
> MacOS/Electron")
> elseif is_linux() || is_bsd()
>   const _electron = resolve("Blink", "deps/atom/electron")
> elseif is_windows()
>   const _electron = resolve("Blink", "deps", "atom", "electron.exe")
> end
>
> 4. After all this, I still get the error:
>
> julia> using Plots
> julia> plotlyjs()
> julia> plot(x -> x^2, rand(10))
> Error showing value of type Plots.Plot{Plots.PlotlyJSBackend}:
> ERROR: Cannot find Electron. Try `Blink.AtomShell.install()`.
>  in electron() at /usr/home/ko/.julia/v0.5/Blink/src/AtomShell/process.
> jl:53
>
>
> Thanks for any help.
>
> Kostas
>