Hello Debian Med team,
The Common Workflow Language [CWL] working group has created a portable
method to describe the command line interface of non-interactive
(scientific) computing tools.
Ideally tool authors would write and ship such descriptions with their
tools. In suggesting that they do so we need to provide advice as to where
to install said files.
I propose that such descriptors be installed into
/usr/share/cwl/${binary-name}.cwl
For applications not installed site-wide I propose that all CWL tool
descriptions should go to $XDG_DATA_HOME/cwl/${binary-name}.cwl
$XDF_DATA_HOME is from the XDG Base Directory Specification [XDGBDS]; as
per that standard it should be interpreted as $HOME/.local/share if not
defined.
What do people think? By my reading this is compliant with the Debian
Policy Manual but I am happy to hear other suggestions or corrections.
[CWL] http://common-workflow-language.github.io
[XDGBDS] http://standards.freedesktop.org/basedir-spec/basedir-spec-0.6.html
Cheers,
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Michael R. Crusoe
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Michael R. Crusoe: Programmer & Bioinformatician [email protected]
The lab for Data Intensive Biology; University of California, Davis
https://impactstory.org/MichaelRCrusoe http://twitter.com/biocrusoe
