Hello Peter,
The idea of altering the description is perhaps best, since you want to
rename into a new merged tool.
If the names were the same, then uploading a new version would tag the
prior as "Status = archived". Linking many-to-one for an updated
version, across new tool names, is not currently an option.
Hopefully this helps,
Jen
On 2/3/11 5:57 AM, Peter Cock wrote:
In my earlier email about Barcode/adapter/primer trimming/filtering of
sequences/reads I wrote:
...
Currently I have used three separate scripts, with three separate
XML files - one for each supported file type (FASTA, FASTQ, SFF).
They all have the same interface, so could be done as a single
XML wrapper. The only potential downside to that is that as written
the SFF script requires Biopython, while the FASTA and FASTQ
scripts currently use the Galaxy libraries instead. This external
dependency may be an issue if Galaxy were interested in
including this tool in the main distribution - or if I bundled this
as a single tool or tool-suite on the Tool Shed.
Any thoughts?
It occurred to me the same applies to three of my existing tools
in the Tool Shed:
* Filter FASTA by ID (uses Galaxy libraries)
* Filter FASTQ by ID (uses Galaxy libraries)
* Filter SFF by ID (uses Biopython)
They could be replaced by a single meta-tool supporting all
these file formats (and potentially more), say:
* Filter sequences by ID
On the one hand this modularity is useful if you don't want to
install all the dependencies and only need some of the file
formats, but they are conceptually doing the same task so it
just clutters the Galaxy tools menu even more if they get three
separate entries.
Assuming I did go ahead and merge the tools, does the Tool
Shed have any "obsoleted" or "deprecated" status, whereby
people could still download it (e.g. if it is being used in a
published workflow, not an issue here I don't think), but make
it clear that another tool is recommended in its place? I could
of course just update the description to say this in words.
Peter
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