[Bioc-devel] Short URLs for packages?
On March 23, 2015 9:18:57 AM PDT, "Tim Triche, Jr." <tim.triche at gmail.com> 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 setup does nothing to address that.
Citation('limma'), for example, does.
.../release/... and .../devel/... can change at any time, potentially
overnight (with or without a new BioC release). The only real way to
cite an exact version is to cite that exact version, which is already
the proper way to do things and would remain unaffected by this, at
least AFAIK.
Perhaps a useful addendum would be for the mnemonic
http://bioconductor.org/limma
To redirect to
http://bioconductor.org/packages/limma/whateverTheMostRecentStableVersionMayBe/
And then everything is explicit.
Does that address the competing issues discussed herein?
Note that 'release' and 'devel' are just symlinks to the current release and devel versions. I.e. currently 3.0 and 3.1 respectively. So you can always link directly to a specific version. Dan
Best, --t
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