----- Original Message ----- > From: "Robert Castelo" <robert.cast...@upf.edu> > To: "Dan Tenenbaum" <dtene...@fredhutch.org> > Cc: bioc-devel@r-project.org > Sent: Thursday, April 30, 2015 12:57:36 AM > Subject: Re: [Bioc-devel] Short URLs for packages? > > hi Dan, > > one question about this, just to know whether this is intentional or > should be fixed. i have noticed that these short URLs: > > www.bioconductor.org/packages/BiocGenerics > > or > > bioconductor.org/packages/BiocGenerics > > resolve to > > http://master.bioconductor.org/packages/release/bioc/html/BiocGenerics.html > > while the page is correct, should not they be resolving to an URL > starting with 'www' instead of 'master'? i.e., > > www.bioconductor.org/packages/release/bioc/html/BiocGenerics.html > > > this is really minor, but i think it may create confusion when one > sees > the same page starting with 'www' or 'master'. >
'www' is just an alias, typically any url starting with www should redirect to plain old bioconductor.org. I've fixed the redirects so they no longer redirect to master. So www.bioconductor.org/packages/BiocGenerics or bioconductor.org/packages/BiocGenerics resolves to http://bioconductor.org/packages/release/bioc/html/BiocGenerics.html Dan > > cheers, > > robert. > > On 04/28/2015 08:08 PM, Dan Tenenbaum 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 > > -- > Robert Castelo, PhD > Associate Professor > Dept. of Experimental and Health Sciences > Universitat Pompeu Fabra (UPF) > Barcelona Biomedical Research Park (PRBB) > Dr Aiguader 88 > E-08003 Barcelona, Spain > telf: +34.933.160.514 > fax: +34.933.160.550 > _______________________________________________ Bioc-devel@r-project.org mailing list https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/bioc-devel