Michael, Galaxy is all about plugins! Tools, datatypes, batch systems, visualizations, et cetera.
Additional ways to extend Galaxy through plugins are very welcome. We just need to make sure that whatever solution is chosen is extremely general. -- James Taylor, Assistant Professor, Biology/CS, Emory University On Tue, Jul 16, 2013 at 1:57 PM, Michael E. Cotterell <mepcotter...@gmail.com> wrote: > Are there any plans in the works to support plugins within Galaxy? One of the > tools I'm working on is actually more of an extension of the workflow > canvas/editor's user interface. Right now, I've minimized the modifications > required to the editor.mako file to simply adding a mako include near the > bottom of the file. However, like I just said, this requires editing a Galaxy > file. It would be a lot better if Galaxy supported plugins with hooks, thus > allowing me to extend the user interface (or any other part of the > application) by registering hooks in a plugin. > > To demonstrate how easy it would be to integrate plugins into a python > application, I've written up a simple plugin manager script (~100 loc) an > placed it in a gist: https://gist.github.com/mepcotterell/6004997. Using this > (or something similar to this) would make Galaxy extremely extensible. > > The only hard part would be figuring out where you want to place the hooks > and documenting them for plugin developers. > > Sincerely, > Michael E. Cotterell > > Ph.D. Student in Computer Science, University of Georgia > Instructor of Record, Graduate RA & TA, University of Georgia > Faculty Liaison, CS Graduate Student Association, University of Georgia > mepcotter...@gmail.com (mailto:mepcotter...@gmail.com) > mepc...@uga.edu (mailto:mepc...@uga.edu) > m...@cs.uga.edu (mailto:m...@cs.uga.edu) > http://michaelcotterell.com/ > > > ___________________________________________________________ > Please keep all replies on the list by using "reply all" > in your mail client. To manage your subscriptions to this > and other Galaxy lists, please use the interface at: > http://lists.bx.psu.edu/ > > To search Galaxy mailing lists use the unified search at: > http://galaxyproject.org/search/mailinglists/ ___________________________________________________________ Please keep all replies on the list by using "reply all" in your mail client. To manage your subscriptions to this and other Galaxy lists, please use the interface at: http://lists.bx.psu.edu/ To search Galaxy mailing lists use the unified search at: http://galaxyproject.org/search/mailinglists/
