How to create an application

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Minimal example

appli.xml file

This file contains :

  • informations about the application : name, organization, year of development…

  • the global structure of the final application : modules to include

  • contributors

  • required “global” variables

It is structured as a standard XML file with elements. Here is the scheme of this file :

appli
├── name
├── appname
├── organization
├── year
├── logo
├── imgdir
├── contributors
│   ├── contributor
│   │   ├── name
│   │   ├── organization
│       └── mail
├── module
│   ├── name
│   └── location
├── variable
└── others

Miscellanous

Contributors

Contributors appear in the appli.xml file in a XML section contributors.

This section contains a contributor element per contributor. This element has a type attribute that can take the following value :

  • dev : for developpers

  • sciexp : for scientific experts