[Bioc-devel] WISH: BioC URL shortcut to packages

[Henrik Bengtsson]

Analogously to CRAN URL "shortcuts, e.g.

  http://cran.r-project.org/package=digest

expanding to

  http://cran.r-project.org/web/packages/digest/index.html,

it would be neat if Bioconductor would support something similar, e.g.

  http://bioconductor.org/package=Biostring

expanding to

  http://bioconductor.org/packages/release/bioc/html/Biostrings.html

Here is a .htaccess RewriteRule (not tested):

  RewriteRule ^package=(.*)$ packages/release/bioc/html/$1.html [NC,L]

The main purpose is to be able to use shorter URLs in texts; the
current ones can sometimes occupy a complete line of text.

Just a suggestion/wish

Henrik