Hi all,
I've just started looking at installing a local copy of Galaxy, and have registered with the mailing list.
First one quick question - is there an easy way to search the Galaxy wiki (or documentation in general)? Perhaps my questions are already discussed if I knew where to look...
I understand that to install Galaxy locally we just clone the mercurial repository (either galaxy-central or galaxy-dist) and then use hg to periodically update this to the latest code. i.e. There are no formal releases with a version number that come as a tar ball or similar.
Naturally, once I have a copy of Galaxy, I will be making some changes to it - in particular configuration changes, for example to use PostgreSQL.
Is the the workflow described here the recommend approach? http://bytebucket.org/galaxy/galaxy-central/wiki/DevConf2010/galaxy_devconf_... (I found this presentation via a Google search)
If I understand it, the idea is that we rename tool_conf.xml.sample to tool_conf.xml (and remove it from the .hgignore file) so that any changes made to the sample configuration will be merged into our local configuration?
Alternatively, we could just take a copy and leave tool_conf.xml in the ignore file. We would then have to manually apply any changes made to the tool_conf.xml.sample on a case by case basis.
Also do you recommend I make my own changes on a branch?
Thanks,
Peter