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.
Note: GDE is now considered an
unsupported legacy application. However, at present, bioLegato reads
menu
files using the GDE item syntax.
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.
