Awesome, thank you! Now how about forwarding this:
http://bioconductor.org/packages/ to this: http://bioconductor.org/packages/release/BiocViews.html#___Software ... I guess that's what bookmarks are for, but ... who uses those anymore, anyway? :-) On Tue, Apr 28, 2015 at 11:08 AM, Dan Tenenbaum <dtene...@fredhutch.org> wrote: > > > ----- Original Message ----- >> From: "Wolfgang Huber" <whu...@embl.de> >> 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 >> 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. >> > > We came up with something close to this, but it does include the /packages/ > segment because we think that's important. > > > http://bioconductor.org/packages/BiocGenerics/ > > - takes you to the release landing page, unless the package is only in devel, > in which case it takes you to > the devel landing page (which will contain suitable warnings/instructions > about installing the devel version). > > You can also specify 'devel' or 'release' or a numbered Bioconductor version: > > http://bioconductor.org/packages/devel/BiocGenerics/ > http://bioconductor.org/packages/release/BiocGenerics/ > http://bioconductor.org/packages/3.2/BiocGenerics/ > http://bioconductor.org/packages/3.1/BiocGenerics/ > http://bioconductor.org/packages/3.0/BiocGenerics/ > ... > > (The trailing slashes are optional in all of these). > > These are redirects and not forwards; that is, if you enter one of these > short URLs, it won't remain in your browser's address bar but will change to > one of the longer URLs. So they are sort of ephemeral in this way. > > We looked into doing these as forwards (i.e., short URL remains in address > bar, but content from 'long' URL is served), which seems more useful, but > there were too many problems with that; it breaks relative URLs and more > importantly it breaks our mirrors which do not necessarily have the same > content root as our web site. > > At any rate, the short URLs can be used in publications and other sites, and > they are useful as a permanent link to the current release version of a > package. We have added information about these short URLs to the emails we > send to new package developers, so that they can use them in publications > that reference their packages. > > Thanks, > Dan > > > > >> Wolfgang >> >> >> ---- >> Wolfgang Huber >> Principal Investigator, EMBL Senior Scientist >> Genome Biology Unit >> European Molecular Biology Laboratory (EMBL) >> Heidelberg, Germany >> >> T +49-6221-3878823 >> wolfgang.hu...@embl.de >> http://www.huber.embl.de >> >> _______________________________________________ >> Bioc-devel@r-project.org mailing list >> https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/bioc-devel >> > > _______________________________________________ > Bioc-devel@r-project.org mailing list > https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/bioc-devel -- Steve Lianoglou Computational Biologist Genentech _______________________________________________ Bioc-devel@r-project.org mailing list https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/bioc-devel
