Hi all!
It is my understanding that galaxy does not support dynamic loading of tools, i.e. for every new tool you add you need to manually change the conf file and restart the server.
I am working on integrating functionality of another system into galaxy. To do this I am actually generating Galaxy tools automatically with certain scripts. The tools generated depend on certain parameters so there can be an arbitrary number of tools generated. Installing them manually and restarting the server is not ideal in this situation since it would depend on an administrator doing the work (rather than the user).
The ideal scenario would be for me to create a tool that can dynamically create and add new tools. However, the latter (adding new tools dynamically) does not seem to be possible right now.
I can think of other reasons that people would like that as well (e.g. for administration purposes). I am not sure if that was already discussed in the past but I was wondering if that is that something that you consider implementing in the near future.
Thank you in advance, Kostas