[Bioc-devel] WISH: BioC URL shortcut to packages
Once upon a time I used apache's mod_rewrite for this sort of thing (in my case for SEO purposes). That said it's not hard at all and super useful. I suspect this is why Rails, Sinatra, etc use routing as their basic building block. Presumably if you typed in http://bioconductor.org/Biostrings It would rewrite the URL to the release version's page and that would be that. I've heard worse ideas :-) --t
On Feb 23, 2014, at 3:58 AM, Sean Davis <sdavis2 at mail.nih.gov> wrote: On Sun, Feb 23, 2014 at 12:32 AM, Henrik Bengtsson <hb at biostat.ucsf.edu>wrote:
Analogously to CRAN URL "shortcuts, e.g. http://cran.r-project.org/package=digest expanding to http://cran.r-project.org/web/packages/digest/index.html, it would be neat if Bioconductor would support something similar, e.g. http://bioconductor.org/package=Biostring expanding to http://bioconductor.org/packages/release/bioc/html/Biostrings.html Here is a .htaccess RewriteRule (not tested): RewriteRule ^package=(.*)$ packages/release/bioc/html/$1.html [NC,L] The main purpose is to be able to use shorter URLs in texts; the current ones can sometimes occupy a complete line of text.
I kinda like this idea, also. I would consider slightly breaking the analogy with CRAN, though, and not use the "=" sign and just use another slash. http://bioconductor.org/package/Biostrings Sean
Just a suggestion/wish Henrik
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