[Bioc-devel] Short URLs for packages?
On Mon, Mar 23, 2015 at 8:05 AM, Fischer, Bernd <
b.fischer at 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/<packagename>) should go to the devel version (maybe with an additional warning that it is only available in devel), before the first release of the package and should go to release afterwards.
I understand the appeal of this, but decoupling publications from the actual, exact versions they discuss or use seems like a relatively large step backwards in terms of reproducibility. At the very least, I think there is some nuance here that warrants careful consideration before we adopt a single-silently-changing-link-per-package paradigm. ~G
Bernd
On 23.03.2015, at 11:45, Sean Davis <seandavi at gmail.com> wrote: 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 <whuber at embl.de> wrote:
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.
Wolfgang
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