----- Original Message ----- > From: "Steve Lianoglou" <lianoglou.st...@gene.com> > To: "Dan Tenenbaum" <dtene...@fredhutch.org> > Cc: "Wolfgang Huber" <whu...@embl.de>, bioc-devel@r-project.org > Sent: Tuesday, April 28, 2015 3:57:25 PM > Subject: Re: [Bioc-devel] Short URLs for packages? > > Awesome, thank you! > > Now how about forwarding this: > > http://bioconductor.org/packages/ > > to this: > > http://bioconductor.org/packages/release/BiocViews.html#___Software >
Done. Dan > ... I guess that's what bookmarks are for, but ... who uses those > anymore, anyway? :-) > > > > On Tue, Apr 28, 2015 at 11:08 AM, Dan Tenenbaum > <dtene...@fredhutch.org> wrote: > > > > > > ----- Original Message ----- > >> From: "Wolfgang Huber" <whu...@embl.de> > >> To: bioc-devel@r-project.org > >> Sent: Monday, March 23, 2015 3:17:03 AM > >> Subject: [Bioc-devel] Short URLs for packages? > >> > >> I wonder whether it'd possible to have the website understand URLs > >> like > >> http://www.bioconductor.org/<pkgname> > >> > >> This could resolve to > >> http://www.bioconductor.org/packages/release/bioc/html/<pkgname>.html > >> or > >> http://www.bioconductor.org/packages/devel/bioc/html/<pkgname>.html > >> depending on whether the package was yet released. > >> > >> This could be handy in papers or grants that mention packages. > >> > > > > We came up with something close to this, but it does include the > > /packages/ segment because we think that's important. > > > > > > http://bioconductor.org/packages/BiocGenerics/ > > > > - takes you to the release landing page, unless the package is only > > in devel, in which case it takes you to > > the devel landing page (which will contain suitable > > warnings/instructions about installing the devel version). > > > > You can also specify 'devel' or 'release' or a numbered > > Bioconductor version: > > > > http://bioconductor.org/packages/devel/BiocGenerics/ > > http://bioconductor.org/packages/release/BiocGenerics/ > > http://bioconductor.org/packages/3.2/BiocGenerics/ > > http://bioconductor.org/packages/3.1/BiocGenerics/ > > http://bioconductor.org/packages/3.0/BiocGenerics/ > > ... > > > > (The trailing slashes are optional in all of these). > > > > These are redirects and not forwards; that is, if you enter one of > > these short URLs, it won't remain in your browser's address bar > > but will change to one of the longer URLs. So they are sort of > > ephemeral in this way. > > > > We looked into doing these as forwards (i.e., short URL remains in > > address bar, but content from 'long' URL is served), which seems > > more useful, but there were too many problems with that; it breaks > > relative URLs and more importantly it breaks our mirrors which do > > not necessarily have the same content root as our web site. > > > > At any rate, the short URLs can be used in publications and other > > sites, and they are useful as a permanent link to the current > > release version of a package. We have added information about > > these short URLs to the emails we send to new package developers, > > so that they can use them in publications that reference their > > packages. > > > > Thanks, > > Dan > > > > > > > > > >> Wolfgang > >> > >> > >> ---- > >> Wolfgang Huber > >> Principal Investigator, EMBL Senior Scientist > >> Genome Biology Unit > >> European Molecular Biology Laboratory (EMBL) > >> Heidelberg, Germany > >> > >> T +49-6221-3878823 > >> wolfgang.hu...@embl.de > >> http://www.huber.embl.de > >> > >> _______________________________________________ > >> Bioc-devel@r-project.org mailing list > >> https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/bioc-devel > >> > > > > _______________________________________________ > > Bioc-devel@r-project.org mailing list > > https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/bioc-devel > > > > -- > Steve Lianoglou > Computational Biologist > Genentech > _______________________________________________ Bioc-devel@r-project.org mailing list https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/bioc-devel
