Re: [galaxy-dev] Tool Shed Workflow

2012-06-12 Thread John Chilton
We are going in circles here :) Me: my hope is for a way of programmatically importing and updating new tools You: This is currently possible (and very simple to do) using the Galaxy Admin UI I would call using the Admin UI not doing some programmatically. You have done a brilliant job making

Re: [galaxy-dev] Tool Shed Workflow

2012-06-09 Thread Ross
John, Why not separate toolshed updates from dist updates - tool xml and other code should be robust wrt dist version. One thing at a time - tools get updated less often than dist I'd wager, and you can subscribe to repository update emails. After a dist update you want all the tool functional

Re: [galaxy-dev] Tool Shed Workflow

2012-06-09 Thread Greg Von Kuster
Hi John, I feel this is an important topic and that others in the community are undoubtedly benefitting from it, so I'm glad you started this discussion. On Jun 9, 2012, at 12:36 AM, John Chilton wrote: We don't pull down from bitbucket directly to our production environment, we pull

Re: [galaxy-dev] Tool Shed Workflow

2012-06-08 Thread Greg Von Kuster
Hi John, On Jun 7, 2012, at 11:55 PM, John Chilton wrote: I have read through the documentation a couple times, but I still have a few questions about the recent tool shed enhancements. At MSI we have a testing environment and a production environment and I want to make sure the tool

Re: [galaxy-dev] Tool Shed Workflow

2012-06-08 Thread John Chilton
Hello Greg, Thanks for the prompt and detailed response (though it did make me sad). I think deploying tested, static components and configurations to production environments and having production environments not depending on outside services (like the tool shed) should be considered best

Re: [galaxy-dev] Tool Shed Workflow

2012-06-08 Thread Greg Von Kuster
Hi John, On Jun 8, 2012, at 1:22 PM, John Chilton wrote: Hello Greg, Thanks for the prompt and detailed response (though it did make me sad). I think deploying tested, static components and configurations to production environments and having production environments not depending on

Re: [galaxy-dev] Tool Shed Workflow

2012-06-08 Thread John Chilton
On Fri, Jun 8, 2012 at 3:27 PM, Greg Von Kuster g...@bx.psu.edu wrote: Hi John, On Jun 8, 2012, at 1:22 PM, John Chilton wrote: Hello Greg, Thanks for the prompt and detailed response (though it did make me sad). I think deploying tested, static components and configurations to production