Re: [galaxy-dev] A tool with no inputs

2011-05-17 Thread Paul-Michael Agapow
>> One of my colleagues is having trouble developing a peculiar tool: it has no inputs. This makes sense in our local >> context - it fetches some constantly updating remote data for the current user - but implementing it has escaped our >> skill. Galaxy complains about a tool with no params (i.e.

Re: [galaxy-dev] A tool with no inputs

2011-05-16 Thread Florent Angly
-boun...@lists.bx.psu.edu] namens Peter Cock [p.j.a.c...@googlemail.com] Verzonden: maandag 16 mei 2011 18:11 Aan: Duddy, John CC: galaxy-dev@lists.bx.psu.edu Onderwerp: Re: [galaxy-dev] A tool with no inputs On Mon, May 16, 2011 at 4:53 PM, Duddy, John wrote: Doesn’t this violate one of the

Re: [galaxy-dev] A tool with no inputs

2011-05-16 Thread Bossers, Alex
-boun...@lists.bx.psu.edu] namens Peter Cock [p.j.a.c...@googlemail.com] Verzonden: maandag 16 mei 2011 18:11 Aan: Duddy, John CC: galaxy-dev@lists.bx.psu.edu Onderwerp: Re: [galaxy-dev] A tool with no inputs On Mon, May 16, 2011 at 4:53 PM, Duddy, John wrote: > Doesn’t this violate one of the basic t

Re: [galaxy-dev] A tool with no inputs

2011-05-16 Thread Peter Cock
On Mon, May 16, 2011 at 4:53 PM, Duddy, John wrote: > Doesn’t this violate one of the basic tenets of Galaxy – reproducibility? > Without the ability to provide full traceability to the inputs, one can make > no guarantees about the outputs. Yes, but not everyone puts that as a number one priorit

Re: [galaxy-dev] A tool with no inputs

2011-05-16 Thread Duddy, John
8-736-3584 E-mail: jdu...@illumina.com<mailto:jdu...@illumina.com> From: galaxy-dev-boun...@lists.bx.psu.edu [mailto:galaxy-dev-boun...@lists.bx.psu.edu] On Behalf Of Paul-Michael Agapow Sent: Monday, May 16, 2011 7:45 AM To: galaxy-dev@lists.bx.psu.edu Subject: [galaxy-dev] A tool with no

[galaxy-dev] A tool with no inputs

2011-05-16 Thread Paul-Michael Agapow
One of my colleagues is having trouble developing a peculiar tool: it has no inputs. This makes sense in our local context - it fetches some constantly updating remote data for the current user - but implementing it has escaped our skill. Galaxy complains about a tool with no params (i.e. an empty