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 maki

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 galaxy

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 tes

Re: [galaxy-dev] Tool Shed Workflow

2012-06-08 Thread John Chilton
On Fri, Jun 8, 2012 at 3:27 PM, Greg Von Kuster 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 e

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
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 practic

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 v