Installation wizard

[Jari Häkkinen]

It would be nice to have a wizard that allows installation of plug-ins from the web GUI. This would require a specification of a streamlined and well defined installation path for plug-ins. In this context the listing of plug-ins and configurations could optionally also list all available plug-ins in specific plug-in repositories (we only have one baseplugins.thep.lu.se but maybe in a distant future there will be more).

Installation of plug-ins from remote locations through the GUI will have security implications and these need to be considered.

[Nicklas Nordborg]

Just looking at the current plug-ins and extensions that we have now I am not so sure that the benefits are very large. For example,

• The Illumina plug-in package requires that the server is stopped, configuration files are modified, updatedb.sh is executed and when the server has been restarted that the special installation plug-in is executed.
• The Normalization package includes C code that needs to be compiled.
• The FTP server extension requires that FTP ports, etc. are configured.

So in many cases the process is more complicated than just copying files to the correct location.