Installation process of Thirdparty binaries

[jpfeuffer]

While looking at how to exclude the Thirdparty binaries from this repo by making the path to them variable, I saw that actually all the folders are hard coded.
I.e. the Installer script installs the Fido folder, then the Xtandem folder, then the MSGF folder and so on. Since we are getting more and more thirdparty binaries it would be great to find a programmatic solution.

[jpfeuffer]

In general: What do you think about putting all Thirdparty executables into one folder (AFTER copying/installing)? I know it's a bit more messy but on the other hand we would not clutter the paths all the time and makes the scripts easier.

[timosachsenberg]

this might work right now but is general a bit dangerous as there might be different versions of e.g. runtime libraries with the same name

[timosachsenberg]

e.g. pwiz and myrimatch

[timosachsenberg]

close?