/** The scheme an install link uses: the file type's own name. */
export declare const SCHEME = "nzip";
/** What a link asks `bundle install` for: its target, and the app a plugin goes in, when the link says. */
export interface Link {
    /** `@<handle or did>/<name>` or an `at://` address. */
    target: string;
    /** What `--for` would be given: an app's listing, or a package name. */
    for?: string | undefined;
}
/**
 * What `bundle install` is given for the link `link`. Throws, saying why, for
 * anything that is not exactly one of the forms above.
 */
export declare function readLink(link: string): Link;
/** The link for a target `bundle install` takes: what `bundle publish` and `suite publish` can tell an author to put on a page. */
export declare function linkFor(target: string): string;
/** The PATH a script started from the macOS desktop gets, before its own: where Homebrew keeps node. */
export declare const MAC_PATH = "/opt/homebrew/bin:/usr/local/bin";
/** The desktop entry that hands `nzip:` links to `archive`, on Linux and the other freedesktop systems. */
export declare function desktopHandler(archive: string): string;
/**
 * The AppleScript of the applet that receives `nzip:` links on macOS — which
 * arrive as an Apple Event, not as an argument, so a script cannot take them
 * itself. It hands each to `archive` in the background and is done.
 */
export declare function appleScriptHandler(archive: string): string;
/** The PowerShell script the `nzip:` URL protocol runs on Windows, hidden: node, with `archive` mounted. */
export declare function windowsHandlerScript(node: string, archive: string): string;
/** The command the `nzip:` URL protocol is registered with: that script, hidden, given the link. */
export declare function windowsHandlerCommand(script: string): string;
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