[Bioc-devel] Do we have an unpacked archive for BioC, so that we can URL link to individual files ?
On 11/17/2017 04:08 AM, Neumann, Steffen wrote:
Hi, I would like to have a URL to individual files we have in BioC packages. This is useful e.g. if I need test data from, say, the msdata package, in another context. In the SVN days, I was able to point directly into the SVN repo with readonly:readonly access. We also had the (now deprecated)?way to link to: https://raw.githubusercontent.com/Bioconductor-mirror/xcms/master/DESCRIPTION -> Is there anything comparable today ?
I think the git archive command might do the trick, but it requires ssh
(i.e., write) access to the repository
git archive --remote=git at git.bioconductor.org:packages/xcms \
master DESCRIPTION | tar -xf -
It could be as simple as a directory tree of a working copies of all https://git.bioconductor.org/ served by the apache (or whatever) web server, or (a bit cooler) a gitweb or similar http interface. Wouldn't that be a fantastic christmas present for us users and developers :-) ? Yours, Steffen
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