BIRCH - Adding locally-installed programs and documentation

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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 the GDE menu system, you can add GDE menu items to the local/dat/GDE/makemenus/menus directory. These new menu items are merged into the BIRCH core GDE menus by the makemenus.py script. 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.

1. Adding programs

1.1 Binaries and scripts
1.2 Setting environment variables and $PATH
1.3 Libraries
1.4 Adding programs to GDE
2. Special considerations for packages
3. Special considerations for Java packages
4. Adding datafiles and documentation to the lbirchdb database

4.1 Documentation files
4.2 Data files
4.3 The lbirchdb database
4.4 htmldoc.py - Creating documentation index web pages

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