Re: [Bioc-devel] Short URLs for packages?

2015-08-05 Thread Vincent Carey
, "Martin > > Morgan" > > Sent: Wednesday, August 5, 2015 6:09:02 PM > > Subject: Re: [Bioc-devel] Short URLs for packages? > > > > > > It seems that the short URLs on devel landing pages refer to release > > pages. Intended? > > > > Yes

Re: [Bioc-devel] Short URLs for packages?

2015-08-05 Thread Dan Tenenbaum
- Original Message - > From: "Vincent Carey" > To: "Dan Tenenbaum" > Cc: "Tim Triche, Jr." , bioc-devel@r-project.org, "Gabe > Becker" , "Martin > Morgan" > Sent: Wednesday, August 5, 2015 6:09:02 PM > Subject: Re

Re: [Bioc-devel] Short URLs for packages?

2015-08-05 Thread Vincent Carey
che, Jr." , bioc-devel@r-project.org, > "Gabe Becker" , "Martin > > Morgan" > > Sent: Tuesday, July 7, 2015 1:12:26 PM > > Subject: Re: [Bioc-devel] Short URLs for packages? > > > > > > OK, thanks. Should we add a little bit to

Re: [Bioc-devel] Short URLs for packages?

2015-07-08 Thread Dan Tenenbaum
- Original Message - > From: "Vincent Carey" > To: "Dan Tenenbaum" > Cc: "Tim Triche, Jr." , bioc-devel@r-project.org, "Gabe > Becker" , "Martin > Morgan" > Sent: Tuesday, July 7, 2015 1:12:26 PM > Subject: Re: [B

Re: [Bioc-devel] Short URLs for packages?

2015-07-07 Thread Vincent Carey
Tim Triche, Jr." , bioc-devel@r-project.org, > "Gabe Becker" > > Sent: Tuesday, July 7, 2015 12:49:24 PM > > Subject: Re: [Bioc-devel] Short URLs for packages? > > > > Has there been a solution to the short URL question? > > > > Yes: https:

Re: [Bioc-devel] Short URLs for packages?

2015-07-07 Thread Dan Tenenbaum
- Original Message - > From: "Vincent Carey" > To: "Martin Morgan" > Cc: "Tim Triche, Jr." , bioc-devel@r-project.org, "Gabe > Becker" > Sent: Tuesday, July 7, 2015 12:49:24 PM > Subject: Re: [Bioc-devel] Short URLs for

Re: [Bioc-devel] Short URLs for packages?

2015-07-07 Thread Vincent Carey
Has there been a solution to the short URL question? On Tue, Mar 24, 2015 at 7:14 AM, Martin Morgan wrote: > On 03/24/2015 02:31 AM, Wolfgang Huber wrote: > >> Before we start a religious war, can we make progress on the pragmatic >> goal of making it possible to provide such URLs to people? >>

Re: [Bioc-devel] Short URLs for packages?

2015-05-04 Thread Robert Castelo
Thanks Dan. robert. On 04/30/2015 05:34 PM, Dan Tenenbaum wrote: - Original Message - From: "Robert Castelo" To: "Dan Tenenbaum" 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,

Re: [Bioc-devel] Short URLs for packages?

2015-04-30 Thread Dan Tenenbaum
- Original Message - > From: "Robert Castelo" > To: "Dan Tenenbaum" > 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 th

Re: [Bioc-devel] Short URLs for packages?

2015-04-30 Thread Robert Castelo
e page starting with 'www' or 'master'. cheers, robert. On 04/28/2015 08:08 PM, Dan Tenenbaum wrote: - Original Message - From: "Wolfgang Huber" To: bioc-devel@r-project.org Sent: Monday, March 23, 2015 3:17:03 AM Subject: [Bioc-devel] Short URLs for

Re: [Bioc-devel] Short URLs for packages?

2015-04-28 Thread Dan Tenenbaum
- Original Message - > From: "Steve Lianoglou" > To: "Dan Tenenbaum" > Cc: "Wolfgang Huber" , bioc-devel@r-project.org > Sent: Tuesday, April 28, 2015 3:57:25 PM > Subject: Re: [Bioc-devel] Short URLs for packages? > > Awe

Re: [Bioc-devel] Short URLs for packages?

2015-04-28 Thread Steve Lianoglou
, Dan Tenenbaum wrote: > > > - Original Message - >> From: "Wolfgang Huber" >> 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 p

Re: [Bioc-devel] Short URLs for packages?

2015-04-28 Thread Dan Tenenbaum
- Original Message - > From: "Wolfgang Huber" > 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 >

Re: [Bioc-devel] Short URLs for packages?

2015-03-24 Thread Fischer, Bernd
I just think there are a couple of subtleties here. I certainly don't begrudge people wanting to type less and find packages easier. But if a naive user with a default (read: release) Bioc installation goes to http://bioconductor.org/CoolAwesomePkg and see's that it is "available in bioconductor" b

Re: [Bioc-devel] Short URLs for packages?

2015-03-24 Thread Kasper Daniel Hansen
There are still problems with completely reproducing old analyses partly due to our (current) inability to reproduce an exact version (as Martin says). But I don't think we should muddle the waters and mix URL schemas with versioning. What Wolfgang is asking for is something I think makes total s

Re: [Bioc-devel] Short URLs for packages?

2015-03-24 Thread Gabe Becker
On Tue, Mar 24, 2015 at 7:28 AM, Wolfgang Huber wrote: > > 5. At the end of the day I find myself casting my lot for landing pages > with the form > > http://bioconductor.org/release/BiocGenerics/ > > which leads to a little less typing but not the dynamic resolution that > started this (version

Re: [Bioc-devel] Short URLs for packages?

2015-03-24 Thread Wolfgang Huber
> 5. At the end of the day I find myself casting my lot for landing pages with > the form > http://bioconductor.org/release/BiocGenerics/ > which leads to a little less typing but not the dynamic resolution that > started this (version) of the thread. But we already have dynamic resolution. Eve

Re: [Bioc-devel] Short URLs for packages?

2015-03-24 Thread Tim Triche, Jr.
#5 is what I was thinking of when I responded. A simple RewriteRule, if anyone still uses Apache. "Release" vs "devel" and/or "3.0" vs "3.1" vs "3.2", e.g. > http://bioconductor.org/release/BiocGenerics/ Pointing analogously to > http://bioconductor.org/3.0/BiocGenerics/ seems like a good

Re: [Bioc-devel] Short URLs for packages?

2015-03-24 Thread Martin Morgan
On 03/24/2015 02:31 AM, Wolfgang Huber wrote: Before we start a religious war, can we make progress on the pragmatic goal of making it possible to provide such URLs to people? There are two concepts - ‘the package' - a specific version, running in a specific environment, ‘frozen’, etc. (Gabe)

Re: [Bioc-devel] Short URLs for packages?

2015-03-24 Thread Wolfgang Huber
Before we start a religious war, can we make progress on the pragmatic goal of making it possible to provide such URLs to people? There are two concepts - ‘the package' - a specific version, running in a specific environment, ‘frozen’, etc. (Gabe) - ‘the package’ - as a concept and a living arti

Re: [Bioc-devel] Short URLs for packages?

2015-03-23 Thread Tim Triche, Jr.
I just meant that the mnemonic link http://www.bioconductor.org/limma/ (SEO version of limma ;-)) could dump people at something like http://www.bioconductor.org/release/limma/3.22.7/ (I'd prefer this) or if need be for backwards compatibility, http://www.bioconductor.org/packages/3.0/limma

Re: [Bioc-devel] Short URLs for packages?

2015-03-23 Thread Gabe Becker
On Mon, Mar 23, 2015 at 9:25 AM, Tim Triche, Jr. wrote: > I guess my problem is that there is even an "if" at the beginning of that > sentence. That's not an attack on you, I know that the above reflects the > current state of affairs, I'm simply saying that perhaps Bioconductor, as a > project,

Re: [Bioc-devel] Short URLs for packages?

2015-03-23 Thread Dan Tenenbaum
On March 23, 2015 9:18:57 AM PDT, "Tim Triche, Jr." wrote: > >> Packages are (read: should be, IMHO) published, citable pieces of >research, though. Imagine if a paper you cite were silently updated >without the doi/citation changing. That wouldn't be good > >I don't disagree, but the existing

Re: [Bioc-devel] Short URLs for packages?

2015-03-23 Thread Tim Triche, Jr.
> I guess my problem is that there is even an "if" at the beginning of that > sentence. That's not an attack on you, I know that the above reflects the > current state of affairs, I'm simply saying that perhaps Bioconductor, as a > project, can help/encourage people to do better. Quite true.

Re: [Bioc-devel] Short URLs for packages?

2015-03-23 Thread Tim Triche, Jr.
> Packages are (read: should be, IMHO) published, citable pieces of research, > though. Imagine if a paper you cite were silently updated without the > doi/citation changing. That wouldn't be good I don't disagree, but the existing setup does nothing to address that. Citation('limma'), for ex

Re: [Bioc-devel] Short URLs for packages?

2015-03-23 Thread Gabe Becker
On Mon, Mar 23, 2015 at 9:00 AM, Tim Triche, Jr. wrote: > .../release/... silently changes every six months or so, as does > .../devel/..., so I don't see how this changes anything beyond that. It > does make finding the packages a lot easier in general, and more mnemonic. > It makes finding w

Re: [Bioc-devel] Short URLs for packages?

2015-03-23 Thread Tim Triche, Jr.
.../release/... silently changes every six months or so, as does .../devel/..., so I don't see how this changes anything beyond that. It does make finding the packages a lot easier in general, and more mnemonic. If you want to document the versions of packages used in an analysis, there's alw

Re: [Bioc-devel] Short URLs for packages?

2015-03-23 Thread Gabe Becker
On Mon, Mar 23, 2015 at 8:05 AM, Fischer, Bernd < b.fisc...@dkfz-heidelberg.de> wrote: > > During the production process of the paper we want to link to the > accompanying > BioC package that is in devel, but not yet in release. Before the first > release, the > link (e.g. www.bioconductor.org/) s

Re: [Bioc-devel] Short URLs for packages?

2015-03-23 Thread Fischer, Bernd
The cited htaccess rule just links the release version of the package. Since this would already be an improvement, it is not sufficient for links in papers. During the production process of the paper we want to link to the accompanying BioC package that is in devel, but not yet in release. Before

Re: [Bioc-devel] Short URLs for packages?

2015-03-23 Thread Sean Davis
Just so we don't lose the thoughts that have come before, here is a link to a similar proposal from last year. https://stat.ethz.ch/pipermail/bioc-devel/2014-February/005292.html Sean On Mon, Mar 23, 2015 at 6:17 AM, Wolfgang Huber wrote: > I wonder whether it’d possible to have the website

Re: [Bioc-devel] Short URLs for packages?

2015-03-23 Thread Laurent Gatto
On 23 March 2015 10:17, Wolfgang Huber wrote: > I wonder whether it’d possible to have the website understand URLs like > http://www.bioconductor.org/ > > This could resolve to > http://www.bioconductor.org/packages/release/bioc/html/.html > or > http://www.bioconductor.org/packages/devel/

[Bioc-devel] Short URLs for packages?

2015-03-23 Thread Wolfgang Huber
I wonder whether it’d possible to have the website understand URLs like http://www.bioconductor.org/ This could resolve to http://www.bioconductor.org/packages/release/bioc/html/.html or http://www.bioconductor.org/packages/devel/bioc/html/.html depending on whether the package was yet re