'Takes in the local path to a config file and registers the (potentially
remote) ultimate path of the config file with the parameter dict.'

def __register_extra_file(self, name, local_config_path):

    self.extra_filenames.append(local_config_path)
    config_basename = os.path.basename(local_config_path)
    compute_config_path = self.__join_for_compute(self.compute_environment.config_directory(), config_basename)
    self.param_dict[name] = compute_config_path
