On 31 May 2006, at 08:41, Tom Oinn wrote:
Hi guys,
It would be really nice if you could keep the older versions of the
mart data around for maybe even a day or two after you do a data
release? It's a bit annoying to have something that works the day you
write it then you come in the next morning and it's all broken because
release 36 has vanished.
Hi Tom,
if you are talking about rdbms access then ensembl public rdbms server
indeed vanished this morning with all release not just 36. Hopefully
the system guys will bounce the server soon.
Is there any possibility we could add a mechanism to mart to allow a
compatibility assertion between two versions? As it happens the
workflow that I wrote yesterday should work just fine with the latest
data release but of course there's no way for Taverna to know that so
it tries to use the old one and fails as it's not there. If
appropriate metadata existed in the mart service we could take
advantage of it and allow users to 'upgrade' workflows rather than
just breaking.
Cheers,
Tom
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