BIRCH - Adding locally-installed
programs and documentation
Goal:
To
add programs or documentation to the local BIRCH installation in
such a way that the users cannot distinguish what is in the BIRCH
core from what has been added locally.
Summary: For
binaries, this is accomplished simply by adding programs to
already-existing local/bin or local/script directories. To launch
locally-installed programs from bioLegato, you can add menu
items to the the appropriate bioLegato directory in local/dat. These
include:
local/dat/birch
local/dat/bldna
local/dat/blprotein
local/dat/blmarker
local/dat/bltree
The new menu items are merged into the BIRCH core bioLegato menus
automatically when a bioLegato instance launches. For documentation,
we need to add paths and descriptions of the documentation to the
local copy of the birchdb database. The htmldoc.py script merges
local and BIRCH core documentation into a single set of web pages.
Remember: all of these
changes are automatically merged into BIRCH each time you update
BIRCH.
