# Proposed new "executable" tag in SlicerExecutionModel

**URL:** <https://discourse.slicer.org/t/proposed-new-executable-tag-in-slicerexecutionmodel/466>\
**Category:** Development\
**Created:** [June 6, 2017, 9:22pm UTC](https://discourse.slicer.org/t/proposed-new-executable-tag-in-slicerexecutionmodel/466 "2017-06-06T21:22:21Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 3\
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**Author:** ![lassoan](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex002/user_avatar/discourse.slicer.org/lassoan/32/13_2.png) [@lassoan](https://discourse.slicer.org/u/lassoan)\
**Post date:** [June 6, 2017, 9:22pm UTC](https://discourse.slicer.org/t/proposed-new-executable-tag-in-slicerexecutionmodel/466/1 "2017-06-06T21:22:21Z")

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> [@Weekly Hangout for Slicer user and developer](https://discourse.slicer.org/t/weekly-hangout-for-slicer-user-and-developer/53/19):
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> update of executable tag to support executable path=“\<name\>” type=“python|cpp”

What this executables tag refers to and what would it be used for?  
It seems that the value specify what language the module is implemented in, but that should not matter much - you can compile python code to be an exe file, you can also create executables by bash scripting, you can run .bat files on Windows…

Do you want to specify what software you need to use to launch it? Then the options should be system, python, bash, etc. and the tag name could be “launcher”, “interpreter” or something similar.

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**Author:** ![fedorov](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex002/user_avatar/discourse.slicer.org/fedorov/32/14_2.png) [@fedorov](https://discourse.slicer.org/u/fedorov)\
**Post date:** [June 9, 2017, 1:59pm UTC](https://discourse.slicer.org/t/proposed-new-executable-tag-in-slicerexecutionmodel/466/2 "2017-06-09T13:59:10Z")

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I agree with Andras - would be great to know more details about this new tag. It is quite confusing. I could not make the call, is there some place with more details?

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**Author:** ![jcfr](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex002/user_avatar/discourse.slicer.org/jcfr/32/17825_2.png) [@jcfr](https://discourse.slicer.org/u/jcfr)\
**Post date:** [June 21, 2017, 2:28pm UTC](https://discourse.slicer.org/t/proposed-new-executable-tag-in-slicerexecutionmodel/466/3 "2017-06-21T14:28:13Z")

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Here is a link to bring some context … [https://github.com/commontk/ctk-cli/pull/17](https://github.com/commontk/ctk-cli/pull/17)

(i will follow up next week when I am back from travelling)